Here are some pictures of water walls by Roberto Burle Marx that I have taken in Venezuela (c.2001) and Brazil (c.2009). I find it particularly interesting to see the types of water expressions that he associated with the walls. Most of the time, water walls have some sort of water sheeting over the face of [...]

Here are a few pictures that I took at Parque del Este in Caracas in 2001. The park was designed by Roberto Burle Marx in 1956.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting the estate of Roberto Burle Marx, located about an hour south of Rio de Janiero.  RBM was a well known Brazilian landscape architect, painter and ecologist. He used this property as a gardening and ecological laboratory for the plants he collected on trips deep into [...]