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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism: Lectures by Roberto Burle Marx - Hardcover
Synopsis
Roberto Burle Marx (1909 - 1994) remains one of the leading landscape architects ever. The significance of his landscape design lies in his use of abstract shapes that rarely employ symmetry, and his use of tropical, mainly Brazilian, flora. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have been published. This book of previously unpublished lectures fills this void. The lectures, delivered on international speaking tours, address topics such as: 'The Garden as an Art in Living,' 'Gardens and Ecology' and 'The Problem of Garden Lighting.' Their timely publication helps shed light on Burle Marx's distinctive style and ethos of landscape as a way of life.
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About the Author
GARETH DOHERTY is lecturer in landscape architecture and urban planning and design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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s democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces-the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments-bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and geopolitical volatility, deepening environmental crises, and a dramatic new wave of popular protest against both authoritarian government and capitalist speculation, cities have become leading sites for new claims on state power and new formations of political subjectivity. This volume brings together perspectives from history, sociology, art, political theory, planning, law, and design practice to explore the urban spaces of the political. A selection of contemporary photography from around the world offers a visual refl ection of this timely investigation.
Contributors include: Michael Arad, Diane Davis, Keller Easterling, Gerald Frug, Mohsen Mostafavi, Chantal Mouffe, Erika Naginski, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Loïc Wacquant, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design.
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Roberto Burle Marx (1909 1994) remains one of the leading landscape architects ever. The significance of his landscape design lies in his use of abstract shapes that rarely employ symmetry, and his use of tropical, mainly Brazilian, flora. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx s own words have been published. This book of previously unpublished lectures fills this void.
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