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Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning.
This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.
Gilles Tiberghien, philosopher and author in the field of Land Art; James Corner, designer and theorist, Pennsylvania University, USA.
I Essay Gilles Tiberghien
II Essay James Corner
1. Formations of Nature Defining the City
Rotterdam Biesboch Stad, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2005
Plaine du Var, France, 2006-
Lower Lea Valley, London, Great Britain, 2004
in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron
Burgos Urban Landscape Masterplan, Burgos, Spain, 2006-
in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron
2. Transformation of a Territory
Lyon-Confluence, Lyon, France, 2000-2004
Bordeaux Rive Droite, Bordeaux, France, 2000-2004
Millenium Park London, Great Britain, 1997-2000
in cooperation with Richard Rogers
Grand Quartier de Port Marianne in Montpellier, France, 1998-2002
3. Landscape and Urban Expansion
Issoudun, France, 2005
Cergy Pontoise, France, 2006-2008
Issoudun, Parc de Théols, France, 1993-1994
T.G.V. Station Méditéranée, Avignon (?), France, 1994-2002
4. The significance of a Park in the Contemporary City
Governors Island, New York, USA, 2007
Cité Nature, Arras, France, 2001-2005
in cooperation with Jean Nouvel
Sculpture Park of Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium, 1998-2000
5. Public Space
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Dallas, USA, 2004-2008
in cooperation with Norman Foster & Partners and OMA
Ile Séguin, Greater Paris, France, 2000-
Extension of the old harbor, Antwerp, Belgium, 2001-2004
Place and bank of the lake, Almere, Netherlands, 2000-2005
in cooperation with Rem Koolhaas and OMA
6. Transfer of Nature into a Human Made Area
Garden of the Ministry of Culture, Paris, France, 2001-2004
Rue de Meaux, Paris, France, 1989-1992
in cooperation with Renzo Piano
Utrecht Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1998-2000
7. Transfer of a Landscape to an Urban «Surface»
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2002-2005
in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2004-2005
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