Espelhos de si: Burle Marx a partir de suas cartas

Abstract

A brief essay of Roberto Burle Marx’s letters as a unique and significant source of knowledge on his multifaceted professional activity and his human trajectory. The work analyzes the active correspondence of the landscape architect, written over the decades from the 1940s to the 1990s, and addressed to his family members, landscape architects, botanists, horticulturists, institutions and various well-known people on the Brazilian and international scenes at the time.