Roberto Burle Marx may not be a household name, but he's one of three modernists who helped remake Brazil in 20th century. Among his projects: Avenidea Atlantica, running along Copacabana Beach.

The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx was a creative dynamo, as the 240,000 visitors to the New York Botanical Garden’s major show this summer discovered. He was a landscape architect, a ...

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 ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. The New York Botanical Garden is celebrating the legacy of famous Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx with one of its most immersive experiences yet ...

A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum demonstrates the late Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx’s influence on today’s contemporary artists, including distinguished painter ...

The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx liked to tell the story of his arrival in Berlin in the late 1920s as a young man, in the German capital to steep himself in European culture.

Avenida Atlantica, along Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, was redesigned in 1970 by the renowned Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.

Roberto Burle Marx’s path to becoming one of the most celebrated landscape architects of the 20th century was about as direct as his sinuous garden designs.

So said the great Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), who not only transformed landscape design in the 20th century but also became famous for the generosity of the ...

The garden has long served as an inspiring subject for art, and as a setting for art in the form of ornamental and monumental sculpture. The Museum of Modern Art this summer has on view an ...

A celebrity in Brazil, Burle Marx was a modernist icon who drastically transformed the urban landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo—even the unfamiliar would recognize his Copacabana Beach ...