Description
Book SynopsisPresenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's depositions, this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.
Trade ReviewDepositions offers an understanding of Burle Marx beyond his gardens and parks; it is a solid introduction to both his work and Brazil’s quest to establish its cultural identity. * Architectural Record *
Depositions is a well-researched, well-written, and laudatory study that substantially adds to, and significantly amends, our view of Burle Marx as a landscape architect and cultural figure. * Landscape Journal *
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Depositions] opens new perspectives on Burle Marx's work, revealing facets of his celebrated projects and legacy that too often go unspoken…This seminal book will enable greater understanding not only of Burle Max's position as a designer operating under dictatorial conditions but also of the convoluted circumstances underlying Brazil's modern architectural history. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *
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Depositions] sheds new light on Burle Marx’s intellectual position and serves as a valuable map of the local sociopolitical context, in its complexities and contradictions since colonial times. * ABE Journal *
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Roberto Burle Marx and the Ecological Modern
- Chapter 1. Constructing Culture in Brazil: Politics and the Public Landscape
- Chapter 2. Forest Narratives
- Brazilian Landscapes, April 27, 1967
- Suggestions for the Preservation of National Parks, August 1967
- Forest Politics and the Destruction of Forests, March 25, 1969
- Forest Conservation, February 12, 1971
- Chapter 3. Landscapes of the Baroque Interior
- Parks, Gardens, and Public Plazas, May 23, 1968
- Cultural Contribution, November 28, 1968
- Defense of Nature Reserves, June 27, 1969
- Defense of the Landscape, August 25, 1969
- Chapter 4. Large Parks, Statues, and Disfigurement
- Statues in Gardens, August 29, 1968
- Sacrificed Landscape, January 28, 1969
- Preservation of Landscape Conditions, September 17, 1970
- Landscape Complex, July 7, 1973
- Green Spaces, July 11, 1973
- Chapter 5. The Scientific Park
- Current Conditions at the Botanical Garden, February 7, 1968
- The Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, September 27, 1968
- The Botanical Garden and Woodland Nursery, August 26, 1969
- The Botanical Garden of Belo Horizonte, May 6, 1970
- Chapter 6. Military Gardens
- Garden and Ecology, July–September 1969
- Epilogue: The Counselor
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
