Google celebrates opening day of the 2016 Rio Olympics with a wacky game you can play on your iPhone or Android—the 2016 Fruit Games. Play

The opening day game features a race along the famed Copacabana promenade, designed by the great Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx. One of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Marx is not a familiar figure outside of his native Brazil. He is best known for his abstract, geometric garden designs, and the seaside promenade in Rio, a stone mosaic extending unbroken the entire 2.5-mile length of the beach (above). Burle-Marx’s best-known project in the US is his commission for the mosaic Biscayne Boulevard in Miami (below).

Trained as a painter during the Weimar era in Berlin, his abstractions of nature often resembled his paintings on canvas, such as his design for a garden in Brasilia (bottom). But his work encompasses an enormous range of artistic forms and styles: Burle Marx was a painter and sculptor; a designer of textiles, jewelry, theater sets, and costumes; a ceramicist and stained-glass artist. His work is currently on view at The Jewish Museum, New York. Info 1109 Fifth Avenue/92^nd Street, New York, NY