Rosa Kliass: the revolution in Brazilian landscaping | People
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1 of 5 Above, Rosa Kliass, full of notable achievements throughout her career: she created and presided over the first administration of the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects (Abap), has her name on the institution’s award designed to value the work of recent graduates who dedicate themselves to the study of landscape, was the first woman to receive the Golden Collar, the highest honor from the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB), in 2019 — Photo: Kênia HernandesAbove, Rosa Kliass, full of notable achievements throughout her career: she created and presided over the first administration of the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects (Abap), has her name on the institution’s award designed to value the work of recent graduates who dedicate themselves to the study of landscape, she was the first woman to receive the Golden Necklace, the highest honor from the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB), in 2019 — Photo: Kênia Hernandes
Among landscape architects, Rosa Grena Kliass emerges as one of those rare good unanimities. All the professionals know her and legitimately admire her, each one has a story about the influence that the small girl born in São Roque, in the interior of São Paulo, in 1932 (year of revolution, as she herself likes to say), had on your life and your career. Courageous, trailblazer, determined, pioneer are among the predicates that accompany her name – which, in fact, seems to have been cultivated for the profession. And the metaphor of the flower that enchants with its beauty and protects itself with thorns is also valid.
