Roberto Burle Marx

Brazilian landscape architect whose Copacabana promenade (Rio de Janeiro, 1970) — the wave-pattern Portuguese-stone pavement — is among the most photographed pieces of public ground in the world. Designed planting for Niemeyer's Brasília and for over a thousand other projects.

Botanically Brazilian — Burle Marx collected, propagated, and named over fifty native species while championing them in design. His paintings, ceramics, jewellery, and gardens shared one biomorphic vocabulary.