O inventário dos jardins de Burle Marx no Recife

Abstract

The Inventory of Burle Marx gardens is part of the research “The conservation of cultural landscape as natural and built heritage in Northeast Brazilian cities” which has carried out in the Landscape Architecture Laboratory of Federal University of Pernambuco since 2004. The aim is to collect data about historical gardens created by the designer Roberto Burle Marx in order to protect them as cultural heritage and to define conservation indicators. The development of the Inventory opens a new stage in the landscape architecture practice in Recife because it considers a square as a garden, an object of historical, artistic and ecological value. These squares are object of detailed research to be demonstrate its cultural values in a view of national recognition as cultural heritage.