THE DESIGNER: ROBERTO SILVA

Roberto Silva is a landscape architect, garden designer, gardener and author (ABAP).

 

Roberto Silva is a Brazilian-born landscape architect and garden designer who has been living and working in London since 1998. He's been interested in landscape and gardens from an early age when he started gardening at his family farm in north east Brazil.

He went on to study Agronomy at the University in Pernambuco, followed by further training in garden design In Sao Paulo. There, he also visited gardens by other designers including Burle Marx who became one of his influences. In UK, he studied English garden design at Capel Manor, then completed master degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Greenwich. Silva has designed gardens in Brazil, France and United kingdom for the past 12 years and work including the much-acclaimed Foster garden has been widely published in magazines and books.

His Book "New Brazilian Gardens the legacy of Burle Marx" has been published by Thames and Hudson and very much reflect his taste and phylosophy for gardens.

 

CV RESUME

Landscape Architect / CREA 19554D
Primavera Farm – proprietor, designer, gardener and manager (1985-89)
Graduated in Agronomy (1989)
Further studies in landscape and garden design in Sao Paulo (1990)
Brasanitas -Experience in restoring, designing and conserving public areas (1991)
Further studies in landscape and garden design, horticulture and hardlandscape in Capel manor (1995-96)
Work at Fulham Palace Garden Centre as well as a freelance designer and consultant (1996-99).
Graduate in MA landscape Architecture at University of Greenwich (2000)
Established Robert Silva Landscape and Garden Design (1998 to date)

REVIEWS ABOUT THE BOOK: Gardens Illustrated (2006), Garden Design Journal (2006), The Guardian (2006), Times magazines (2006), Gardening Focus (2006), South Wales Argus (2006), Living and Gardens (2006)

PUBLICATIONS: Magazines and papers
New Eden Magazine (2000), The Sunday Times/ Style (2000), Paisagismo e Jardinagem (2001), Gardens Illustrated (2001), Construir Nordeste (2003), Jardins em pequenos spacos ( 2003), Bhs(2005), Comercio Newspaper (2005), Casa & Mercado (2007), Homes and gardens (2007), The English Garden, Cover (2008), Ask (2009), Wallpaper (2010), Natureza (2010), Paisagismo e jardinagem (2010)

BOOKS: The Garden Book (2000), The New Decorated Garden (2002), Jardins do Brasil (2002), The Peaceful garden (2003), The small garden book (2006), The English Garden Diary (2007), Outdoors - Terence Conran (2007) - 1000 X Landscape Architecture(2008).

TV: An Interview featuring the Foster garden, TV Globo (2002), An Interview and program about the book and work, TV Globo (2007), An Interview about the book Universitaria TV (2007).

ARTICLES PUBLISHED: Landscape design in England , Brazilian landscape journal (2002), Landscape design in England, Portuguese landscape journal (2003), Landscape design in England , Natureza magazine (2005), What makes a Brazilian garden? SGD Journal (2009). The Colour of the Landscape, book review, SGDJ (2009), Transforming the Uncommon Ground, book review , SGDJ, 2010.

LECTURERS: Landscape in England, UFRPE, Brazil (2003); New Brazilian gardens The Legacy of Burle Marx, UFRPE, Brazil (2006); Nurture not nature, Fragments, SGD Spring conference, Imperial College, UK (2009)

AWARDS: Votos de Aplausos, Camera Municipal de Caruaru (2000)

COMPETITION: Short listed among five contestants to design a garden at Deal castle - English heritage (2002)

SHOW GARDEN: Invited to design a garden at Olympia Fifth room, London (2004)

EXHIBITION /BOOK LAUNCH: A photograph exhibition about the Foster Garden and book launch at Saraiva bookstore, Brazil (2007)

 

 

roberto silva

1. Philosophy and Inspiration
2. Planting
3. Plans and Materials
4. Colour
5. Garden Details