About the Author

Marta Iris Montero is a landscape architect based in Buenos Aires who worked with Roberto Burle Marx on a large urban project there in the 1970s. In France, she collaborated with landscape designer Gilles Clement and, in association with Burle Marx, created the design for the terrace of the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Reviews

"A revealing and competent examination of his life and works; it gives the reader a sense of the impulses and sensibilities that drove him, chief among them the urge to provide art for everyone, not just the elite."--"Washington Post Book World