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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll designed more than 400 gardens across Britain, Europe, and the United States during her career, and she developed a distinctive approach to perennial flower border design built around careful color theory, arranging plants in deliberate graduated color progressions rather than simply mixing varieties together. Her long professional partnership with architect Edwin Lutyens, in which Jekyll designed gardens for numerous houses Lutyens had architecturally designed, became one of the most significant and enduring collaborations in the history of British garden and architectural design. Jekyll came to garden design relatively late in life after deteriorating eyesight forced her to abandon her earlier career as a painter and decorative artist, and she directly applied her painterly training in color theory to her subsequent garden design work. Gertrude Jekyll's combination of her painterly color-theory approach to perennial borders and her extensive collaborative partnership with Edwin Lutyens has made her one of the most influential garden designers in British landscape history.
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Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx became Brazil's most internationally significant landscape architect, designing the famous undulating black-and-white wave-patterned mosaic promenade along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach in 1970, one of the most photographed pieces of public landscape design in the world. His design work incorporated Brazil's native tropical plant species extensively at a time when many Brazilian gardens still favored imported European plant varieties, and Burle Marx's advocacy significantly influenced broader Brazilian appreciation for using native flora in landscape design. Burle Marx designed the landscaping for numerous major modernist architectural projects, including significant work in Brazil's purpose-built capital city, Brasília, collaborating closely with prominent modernist architects on integrating landscape design directly into large-scale urban planning projects. Roberto Burle Marx's combination of his iconic Copacabana promenade design and his pioneering advocacy for native Brazilian plants in landscape architecture has made him one of the most internationally significant landscape architects of the 20th century.
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