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 ...

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. When he ...

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.

Explore the work of Brazilian Modernist landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx in the New York Botanical Garden's biggest exhibit to date, encompassing the whole garden.

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 ...

The show’s curators, Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson, have gathered a wealth of rare original material by Burle Marx, including drawings, paintings, plans, models, and a nearly 90-foot-long ...

Few have stamped their mark on a conversation as Oscar and Marx had for me: The vivid captures in my mind are equal tribute and homage to the art of another time, the captures in times today.

Born in São Paulo in 1909 to a Brazilian mother and a German father, Roberto Burle Marx (distant cousin of Karl) was a self-taught botanist and trained painter. Fusing a deep reverence for nature with ...

Roberto Burle Marx designed a swirling garden path at Copacabana Beach, and his American protégé has created a fragrant homage to the landscape architect in the Bronx.

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 ...

Throughout a more than sixty-year career, Burle Marx designed over 2,000 gardens worldwide and discovered close to fifty plant species, and made paintings and objects of exuberant, rare beauty.