Os jardins da residência Moreira Salles. O projeto original de Burle Marx e a restauração de Isabel Duprat

Abstract

This article consists of a morfologic analysis of the projected landscape of the residence of Moreira Salles, the current cultural center of the Institute of Moreira Salles, located in the neighborhood of Gávea, in Rio de Janeiro, designed in 1950 by architect Olavo Redig de Campos. By a comparative study between the project of landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, conceived one year later, and the restoration, elaborated by the landscape designer Isabel Duprat and concluded in 1999, we can identify the influences revealed by the original project, the relation of the gardens of Burle Marx with a building representative of Modern Architecture, and the changes that have occurred in this space over close to a half a century.