Architects often enjoy viewing projects through floor plans, and some landscape architecture works are so large that they’re hard to appreciate without this view fully. Seeing them from above lets you understand their full essence and admire the entire design. We’ve selected a series of aerial photographs of Roberto Burle Marx’s works, provided by the Spanish company Deimos Imaging, offering a rare perspective you may not have seen before.
Although mostly self-taught, Burle Marx is regarded as the father of Brazilian landscape architecture. He elevated the profession by integrating landscape architecture with architectural and urban development projects. His legacy includes not only earning international acclaim for modern Brazilian landscape design but also introducing native plant species into projects of all sizes, both in Brazil and globally, resulting in distinctive and innovative compositions. In addition to his landscape work, he explored various artistic fields, including painting, drawing, sculpture, tapestry, and crafts.
The images were captured by the Deimos-2 satellite, launched in 2014 and designed to take ultra-high-resolution photos of Earth, showing the current state of some of Burle Marx's most iconic works. For a few projects, we’ve added detailed images from Google Earth. When viewed on this scale, Burle Marx’s designs reveal a new perspective, highlighting both their surroundings and the mature, well-established vegetation. These projects, spread across various cities worldwide, showcase Burle Marx’s signature creativity in plant arrangements, water features, and paving patterns.
