This summer, a luxuriant Brazilian jungle has made its way to, of all places, the concrete jungle. At the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, the serendipitously named landscape architect Raymond Jungles has created a verdant nirvana that celebrates the work of Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94), the Brazilian painter, botanist, and master sculptor of flora. The temporary display garden summons the organic, asymmetric forms, twists and turns, and electrifying colors that define Burle Marx’s landscape designs, which range from public parks, such as the 1951 Parque Jaqueria in Recife, to the grounds for government buildings, including the seminal 1942 Ministry of Education and Health Building in Rio de Janeiro, by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, and other prominent Modernist architects.
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