About us
The Burle Marx Institute (BMI) top priority is to safeguard and make public the collections left by Burle Marx and his collaborators through their inventorying, cataloging and digitization.
The 120,000 piece collection is composed of studies, drawings, models, urban projects, letters, photos, and published articles, all of which are carefully preserved in documents. The collection displays the creativity of one of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century.
Burle Marx Institute (BMI) aims to preserve and disseminate the collection left by Brazilian landscape architect and artist Burle Marx and his collaborators. The organization’s goal is to connect themes in his works to relevant current topics, effectively giving new meaning to his legacy, and promoting visions of urban landscape transformation and greater equity. The Institute believes that boldness, experimental liberty and aesthetic language can inspire current and future generations – especially youth, artists and urban planners – to create changes and new visions of the future.
History
The Institute is a recently-founded non-profit organization that aims to learn from and work with other organizations and social groups. BMI was created by dedicated associates at the Burle Marx Studio to make his archive accessible to the public. Haruyoshi Ono, Burle Marx Studio partner and director until 2017, always argued the importance of preserving this archive. In 2019, his daughter Isabela helped continue this mission of safeguarding and disseminating the archive, seeking to inspire new works and to promote cultural, educational and environmental conservation initiatives in collaboration with it.
Mission
Preserve, catalyze and disseminate the Burle Marx’s legacy to inspire and stimulate new cultural, educational and environmental conservation new initiatives.
Values
Respect to memory
Excellence
Commitment to the exchange of experiences
Stimulus to knowledge
Interdisciplinarity
Coletivity
Passion for the cause
Ethics and Transparency
Preserve and reverberate the living art of Burle Marx
The Institute operates with an assertive, inclusive and collaborative vision that seeks to raise appreciation for the archive through cultural and educational initiatives and knowledge exchange, while aiming to contribute to Brazilian biome preservation and to improving the relationship between man and nature. Through its work, the Institute also aims to expand discussions on healthier, greener cities and SDGs (particularly number 11), and to promote aesthetic experimentation and freedom of expression
Team
Founding Partners
Isabela Ono
Julio Ono
Gustavo Leivas
Board Members
Isabela Ono
Julio Ono
Gustavo Leivas
Ana Toni
Lauro Cavalcanti
Frederico Gelli
Marisa Vassimon
Paulo A. Weyland Vieira
Júlia Dias Leite
Fiscal Board
Marcelino dos Santos
Adriana Moura
Executive Director
Isabela Ono
Communication Manager
Tatiana Leiner
Burle Marx Institute Collection
General Supervisor
Christina Gabaglia Penna (Hólos Consultoria e Assessoria)
Technical Coordinator
Cecilia de Oliveira Ewbank
Museologists
Maria Pierro Gripp
Lia Peixinho
Archivists
Ana Renata de Souza Tartaglia
Lucia Helena Ribeiro Santos
Yuri Calamara (internship)
Support Administrative
Rafaela Manhães