If you are in Miami and see the lush gardens on the rooftop of Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony, or the grounds around the Grove at Grand Bay by Bjarke Ingels Group, you are looking at the work of Raymond Jungles. The landscape architect’s practice, based in Miami’s Coconut Grove, is known for its vibrant native plants, often arranged in curvilinear patterns evocative of the work of the late Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Jungles has also taken on a very unexpected assignment: overhauling the garden that Dan Kiley originally conceived in 1967 for the atrium of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York. The garden is part of a renovation that Gensler undertook for the landmark designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. Jungles’s knowledge of subtropical plants helped him meet the challenge of choosing botanical specimens that would thrive indoors in a temperate climate. RECORD talked to Jungles about the trajectory of his career.
About your last name—Jungles. It’s perfect, but what was it originally?
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