Roberto Burle Marx
He didn’t make gardens—he made ecological arguments in gravel, water and leaf.
Ecology
How living things fit together, and what happens when a piece is removed.
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John Thackara
Thackara didn’t design things—he designed the conditions where design could matter for sustainability.
Laurie Baker
Laurie Baker didn’t design buildings — he designed responses to termites, monsoons and cow dung.
Piet Oudolf
He designs for decay—and that’s why his gardens last.
High Line
Adaptive reuse is not a style — it’s a discipline of subtraction, and the High Line proves it.
Janet Echelman
She makes buildings breathe by hanging data-driven nets in the wind—and proves volumetric sculpture doesn’t need weight to hold meaning.
Neri Oxman
Design research as hypothesis-testing—not product development.
Victor Papanek
Papanek didn’t preach ethics — he priced radios in candles and TVs in dollars.