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Signature · Landscape · São Paulo
Alex Hanazaki
Brazilian landscape architecture awarded worldwide: clean lines, geometry and water mirrors from the first Brazilian to win the ASLA.
Who he is
Alex Hanazaki is an architect (Universidade de Marília) and landscape designer, with an office in Pinheiros and around twenty-six years of career. His language is contemporary and minimalist, with clean lines, geometric forms, water mirrors and a rigorous integration between architecture and nature. He is the first and only Brazilian to win the ASLA Professional Awards, the world’s leading landscape architecture award.
Concept
- Philosophy: contemporary and minimalist, with a strong integration between architecture and nature; a declared reference to Burle Marx.
- Typical vegetation: clean lines, geometric shapes and water mirrors.
- Awards: ASLA Professional Awards (2014 and 2017); permanent garden at IGA Berlin 2017.
Landmark gardens
- Landscaping for Japan House São Paulo (with Kengo Kuma).
- Praça Eliane (CASACOR 2016), award-winning at the ASLA.
- Projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Germany.
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