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Monday, January 16, 2017

A tribute to an incredible landscape architect



Who is this man ?



Roberto Burle Marx

August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994



A Brazilian landscape architect, plant propagator and painter who was known as the designer of the Copacabana in Rio de Janiero.


Burle Marx was a modernist painter and garden/park designer.


Here are some classic designs of his...








but what I didn't know...

was that he also 
designed some 
beautiful stained glass
windows




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