"Kongjian Yu, one of the world's most famous landscape architects, has reportedly been killed in a plane crash in Brazil'sPantanal wetlands while making a film about his work. Yu, 62, was flying to a ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul state, near Brazil's western border with Paraguay and Bolivia, in a single-engine four-seater Cessna aircraft when the plane went down on Tuesday afternoon. Three others on board were also killed: two Brazilian filmmakers, Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Junior, and Marcelo Pereira de Barros, a well-known local pilot."
"The film's title is inspired by the Peking University professor's pioneering work the sponge city concept on how to help cities cope with extreme weather and floods in an era of climate change. Yu used ancient Chinese water systems to reimagine modern architecture, building systems to help cities conserve and re-use rainwater. This helps to regulate water flows across monsoon and dry seasons. It's important to make friends with water, he once said."
Kongjian Yu, 62, died in a plane crash in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands while en route to a ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul. Three others on board were also killed: filmmakers Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Junior and pilot Marcelo Pereira de Barros. The filmmakers were working on a documentary called Planeta Esponja inspired by Yu's sponge city concept. The sponge city approach uses ancient Chinese water systems to conserve and re-use rainwater, regulate flows across monsoon and dry seasons, and adapt cities to extreme weather. Yu's firm Turenscape has implemented projects across China, including a floating forest wetland on the Yangtze floodplain.
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