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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41579

Type

conference item

Titre

Conserving the spirit of Burle Marx gardens in Recife, Brazil

Langues

English

Auteurs

Carneiro, Ana Rita Sá / Mafra, Fátima / Silva, Aline de Figueirôa

Date

2008

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

conservation of historic gardens / historic gardens / restoration / doctrine / charters / inventories / spirituality / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Brazil

Monuments et sites

Burle Marx garden, Brazil

Résumé en anglais

This paper has as its main aim to present Burle Marx gardens inventory as an instrument to conserve the spirit of the Recife urban landscape in Northeast Brazil. In Burle Marx’s garden conception (as one of the most famous landscape designer all over the world), vegetation is the main element of an architectural composition which takes into account the cultural aspect. Heshowed this principle in the first public gardens designed from 1935 to 1958 in Recife. The gardens were drawing on ecological, artistic and educationalprinciples and were referred to as ‘living monuments’ according to the Charter of Florence (1981). Until 2002 there was lack of conservation in most of these gardens. They were threatened to loose Burle Marx conception for new interventions with any artistic, historical and cultural values. Thepractice of conserving historic gardens began to be discussed in Recife in 2002 when consideration was given to the restoration of two of the gardens:Euclides da Cunha and Faria Neves. The restoration was based on the proceedings of the Charter of Florence exploring pleasure and meditation in order to preserve the spirit of Burle Marx garden. The first part of the inventory deals with six gardens and it will be continued to a group of the eighteen Burle Marx public gardens in Recife.

Document joint

80-4DVa-153.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)