Overview

• The single‑engine aircraft crashed Tuesday evening in Mato Grosso do Sul’s Pantanal near Aquidauana during an attempted landing at a farm, authorities said.
• Those killed were Kongjian Yu, filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr., and pilot Marcelo Pereira de Barros, according to Brazil’s vice president.
• Emergency crews were alerted around 8:10 p.m. local time and conducted a roughly nine‑hour operation in difficult, remote terrain.
• Yu had recently appeared at the São Paulo International Architecture Biennale and was traveling with a team reported to be filming a documentary in the Pantanal.
• A leading landscape architect who founded Turenscape and Peking University’s landscape program, Yu popularized the ‘sponge city’ approach, which Brazil’s architecture council says has been applied in over a thousand projects in 250 cities.