house, studio, and gardens, built in 1948 in Mexico City, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. Roberto Burle Marx is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. He was landscape architect (as well as a botanist, painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist, and musician) who designed of parks and gardens in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and in the United States in Florida. He worked with the architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer on the landscape design for some of the prominent modernist government buildings in Brazil's capitol Brasília. Historic gardeners The following names, roughly in historical order, made contributions that affected the history of gardens, whether as botanist explorers, designers, garden-makers, or writers. Further information on them will be found under their individual entries. Theophrastus Lucullus Tiberius Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pacello da Mercogliano John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name Carolus Clusius André le Nôtre Thomas Hill John Evelyn George London Henry Wise William Kent Lancelot "Capability" Brown Humphry Repton Andrew Jackson Downing Frederick Law Olmsted George Loddiges Giovanni Baptista Ferrari John Loudon Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Peter Joseph Lenné Joseph Paxton Thomas Jefferson William Robinson (gardener) Gertrude Jekyll Constance Villiers-Stuart Lawrence Johnston Edwin Lutyens Vita Sackville-West Claude Monet Jens Jensen Theodore Payne Beatrix Farrand Florence Yoch + Louise Council Ganna Walska Lockwood DeForest A.E. Hanson Russell Page Luis Barragán Gustav Ammann Lawrence Halprin Roberto Burle Marx Xavier de Winthuysen Nicolau María Rubió i Tudurí Sylvia Crowe Pietro Porcinai Gerard Ciołek Gilles Clément Notable historic gardens Brazil Brasília- selected locations; (Roberto Burle Marx) Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo Canada The Butchart Gardens (British Columbia) (1909) Halifax Public Gardens (Nova Scotia) (1867) Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario) (1932) Montreal Botanical Garden (Quebec) (1931) China Gardens of Suzhou Summer Palace Beihai Park Yuyuan Garden Prince Gong Mansion England Public gardens Meadow of Moorfields, London (1605) (destroyed) Hyde Park, London (1728) Peel Park, Salford (1846) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond (1771) Private gardens Blenheim Palace Chatsworth Fountains Abbey Hidcote Manor Garden Lost Gardens of Heligan Rousham House Sissinghurst Castle Stourhead Stowe Gardens France Public gardens Champs-Élysées, Paris (1640) Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (1664) Bois de Boulogne, Paris (1852) Place des Vosges, Paris (1682) Private gardens Chateau Fontainebleau Château de Marly Château de Villandry Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau