Brazil

Our stay in Argentina has come to an end. We pack up our things leave them at the airport and hop onto a flight to Brazil. We will be going to the countryside, beaches, and concrete jungles of Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo.

We flew into Brazil and the landscape dramatically changed. For years i had looked in wonder at the beautifully graphic forms of landscape architect Burle Marx and here flying over Brazil immediately his blobs of red and curves of green had context.


The soaring concrete cantilevers of Belo Horizonte airport and we had arrived into Brazil.


Development in Brazil has been moving at an astonishing speed. This city 30 years ago was fields and sparse single family residences. Between then and now the city filled completely with a carpet of single family, then 4-5 story apartments, and now with 20-30 story towers. It is interesting to see Los Angeles make just now a partial conversion from single family and all the trouble that comes with that. Then you see a place like this, a place with serious growth and it is just amazing to see how it has evolved.


I like the lines of the streets, every country does it slightly different. Do not be fooled by the order of the streets, ladies of the night stand under trees...Where ever you go in Brazil there are always several orders working at any given moment or place.