Roberto Burle Marx（1909-1994）仍然是该领域历史上最重要的景观设计师之一。他与众不同并广受赞誉的作品在许多地方被介绍和提及，然而，Burle Marx自己说的话却很少公之于众。本书收集的Burle Marx的十二堂讲座填补了这一空白，其中的大部分以前从未出现过英语版本。这些讲座是是在国际巡回演讲中发表的，主题包含“景观布局中的概念”，“花园和生态学”以及“花园照明问题”。这些讲座均以列奥纳多•芬诺蒂（Leonardo Finotti）拍摄的照片为背景，拍摄的是Burle Marx已经完成的项目的精选。

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx's lectures, most of which have never before been available in English, fills that void. Delivered on international speaking tours, they address topics such as Concepts in Landscape Composition, Gardens and Ecology, and The Problem of Garden Lighting. Their publi- cation sheds light on Burle Marx's distinctive ethic and aesthetic of landscape, as "the real art of living." The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist, and botanist, but as a land- scape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. The lectures are framed by photographs, by Leonardo Finotti, of a selection of Burle Marx's realized projects.