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Article: Appreciation; Renaissance Gardener; Brazil's Burle Marx and The Art of the Jungle
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- The Washington Post
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- June 16, 1994
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With his garish neckties and fright of white hair, Roberto
Burle Marx left an indelible impression on everyone who met him.
The trappings of his eccentricity, the tie, the hair, the
mustache, the animated voice, were simply the manifestations of a
rich creative spirit that changed the world about it.
Burle Marx, who died June 4 at the age of 84, is remembered as
a landscape architect who devised a whole new form of landscape
expression in the 20th century, suited especially to his native
Brazil. But his gardens and parks - collectively thousands of
executed and unbuilt designs over a 60-year career - were part of a
larger ingenuity. He was an artist in the broadest sense, whose
forms ...
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Article: ROBERT MARX, 84; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT.(CAPITAL ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);
June 5, 1994 ;
511 words
...Byline: Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil World-renowned landscape architect and ecologist Robert Burle Marx died early Saturday of stomach cancer. He was 84. Marx designed more than 1,500 parks and gardens, including Rio de Janeiro ...
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