Top Landscape Architects

🇧🇷 Roberto Burle Marx

A pioneer of modern landscape architecture, Burle Marx (1909–1994) treated gardens as living canvases. His abstract compositions and use of native Brazilian plants reshaped the discipline, blending modernist form with ecological and cultural depth.

🇨🇳 Kongjian Yu

Born in 1963, Kongjian Yu is redefining urban resilience through ecological design. Founder of Turenscape, he introduced the “sponge city” concept—using wetlands, native vegetation, and adaptive landscapes to absorb floods and restore natural systems within dense cities.

🇺🇸 Kathryn Gustafson

Known for her sculptural, sensory approach, Gustafson creates landscapes shaped by movement, curves, and material tactility. Her work balances elegance and functionality, transforming public space through emotional and spatial clarity.

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