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Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf became the leading figure in the "New Perennial" planting movement, a naturalistic gardening style emphasizing ornamental grasses and perennial plants selected for their structural form and seasonal change, including their appearance after flowering and through winter, rather than being valued purely for peak bloom color. Oudolf co-designed the planting for New York City's High Line elevated park, which opened in sections beginning in 2009, and the project's naturalistic, meadow-like plantings running through a repurposed elevated freight rail line became one of the most globally influential urban landscape design projects of the early 21st century. His design work extended internationally to projects including Chicago's Lurie Garden and the Vlinderhof garden in the Netherlands, and Oudolf's planting philosophy specifically emphasizes designing for a garden's appearance across all four seasons rather than prioritizing a single peak flowering period. Piet Oudolf's combination of his foundational role in the New Perennial planting movement and his globally influential High Line planting design has made him one of the most significant landscape designers of the contemporary era.
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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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