Walking into the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit on Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect best known for his strikingly patterned seaside pavements on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, ...

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 ...

This summer, the New York Botanical Garden celebrates Roberto Burle Marx, the modernist landscape architect who worked with Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. Roberto Burle Marx’s path to becoming one of ...

Roberto Burle Marx, a pioneer in garden design, emphasized the importance of working with native plants. Today, deforestation is a leading contributor to global warming, a harrowing reminder that we ...

A TOWERING FIGURE of Brazilian modernism, 20th-century landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx has long been known as the father of tropical garden design, the man who opened his compatriots’ eyes to ...

The Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have been a showcase more for Brazil’s political and economic anxiety than any kind of architectural drama. None of the venues built for the Games is unorthodox ...

For an endeavor of this scale, partnering with Jungles was the obvious choice. A former protégé of Burle Marx himself, Jungles is chock-full both of memories of the man and of insights into his work. ...

Fans of landscape architecture will have enjoyed the four month stay of an exhibit which opened in March at Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Center for Architecture and Patrimony), ...

“You can’t talk about Rio de Janeiro without talking about Burle Marx,” says Claudia Nahson, a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City. “He shaped the city with public works.” If you watch the ...

Sunder Nursery in Delhi is currently home to a unique juxtaposition, with photographs of Brazilian landscape designs framed against Mughal-style gardens at the Unesco World Heritage site. In one of ...

The New York Botanical Garden has opened its largest ever show, devoted to the Brazilian landscape architect. By Jason Farago See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...