This High Summer season, we draw inspiration from renowned architect, multi-hiphanate artist and essential influence on Carioca landscapes, Roberto Burle Marx. Though most well-known for his landscape architecture, Burle Marx (1909–1994) expanded far beyond this practice; he was a pioneering modernist, conservationist, and a visionary who transformed the identity of Rio de Janeiro’s urban tapestry.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, and later moving to Rio in 1913, Burle Marx had an upbringing rooted deeply in creativity; he began...