Title & Author:

Roberto Burle Marx : the modernity of landscape / edited by Lauro Cavalcanti, Farès El-Dahdah, Francis Rambert ; contemporary photographs by Leonardo Finotti.

Publication:

[Paris] : Cite de l'architecture & du patrimoine/Institut francais d'architecture ; [Barcelona] : Actar, 2011.

Description:

344 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Based on the exhibition catalogue Roberto Burle Marx 100 anos : a permanência do instável, edited by Lauro Cavalcanti and Farès El-Dahdah (Rio de Janeiro : Fundação Roberto Marinho/Editora Rocco Ltda, 2009), this book accompanies the exhibition Roberto Burle Marx, la permanence de l'instable at la Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, 22 March-24 July 2011"--Page 344.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Roberto Burle Marx the performance of the unstable / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Unstable landscapes / Fares El-Dahdah -- Concepts of composition in landscape architecture / Roberto Burle Marx -- From modernism to ecology / Jacques Leenhardt -- The science of perception / Jose Tabacow -- Bifurcations / Lars Lerup -- The garden as art form / Roberto Burle Marx -- A planetary modernist / Lelia Coelho Frota -- Three private gardens / Andre Correa Do Lago -- Landscape architecture in the city / Roberto Burle Marx -- Parterres en l'air: Roberto Burle Marx and the modernist roof garden / Dorothee Imbert -- Cannibalizing le corbusier: the MES gardens / Valerie Fraser -- Insights into a contemporary approach -- An aesthete between species and spaces / Francis Rambert -- Heritage and complicities: conversation with Gilles Clement -- In praise of a plant amateur: interview to Patrick Blanc.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788492861675 (pbk.)
8492861673 (pbk.)

Subject:

Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994 Exhibitions.
Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France) Exhibitions.
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)
Landscape architects Brazil.
Landscape architecture Brazil.
Urban beautification Brazil.
Public spaces Brazil.
Architectes paysagistes Brésil.
Architecture du paysage Brésil.
Espaces publics Brésil.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture
Public spaces
Urban beautification
Brazil

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Writings.
Interviews.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Cavalcanti, Lauro.
El-Dahdah, Farès.
Rambert, Francis.
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275180
Call No.: BIB 209191
Status: Available