The Casa Forte Square: a historic garden, a cultural heritage of Brazil

ABSTRACT Roberto Burle Marx created the Brazilian modern garden in Recife in the 1930s. He conceived the garden as an esthetic reintegration of the components of nature in which vegetation was the main element and, considering that, designed thirteen public gardens from 1935 to 1937, including Casa Forte Square, his first garden design. As the garden is perishable and renewable, according to The Florence Charter, due to all the physical and biological dynamics, the lack of conservation causes its degradation. Thus, this article presents the historiography of Casa Forte square to subsidize effective conservation actions.