Development : Collection Map

Inspired by The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx

The Burle Marx design, part of the original scheme for the building, represents the artist's first experiment with organic forms, intended as much for the visual pleasure of the workers on the floors above as for the users of the garden itself.

Plan for the roof garden of the Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro, 1938. Gouache on board.

Burle Marx was responsible for some of the most transgressive elements of Brazil's seminal modern monument: decolonized, 'open-ended' tropical gardens of pleasure, dominated by the sensuous curves of the Brazilian landscape. Burle Marx’s gardens are works of modern art, not only because they make use of flat planes, abstract shapes, and bold color.

I started taking inspiration from Marx’s designs and created a Map with the same style of his landscapes, using the same design elements, such as the curvy shapes and colours..