Article: Appreciation; Renaissance Gardener; Brazil's Burle Marx and The Art of the Jungle

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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