
Planetary Gardens
The Landscape Architecture of Gilles Clément
Alessandro Rocca(Editor)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 8. August 2008
Book
Hardback
263 pages
978-3-7643-8781-5 (ISBN)
Description
Gilles Clément confronts the homogenizing effects of globalization with the diversity of life. As a trained gardener, he places our current knowledge of plant utilization and ecology in the service of the "planetary garden," in which plant species from a tremendous variety of cultures are collected, composed, and carefully overseen in their development by the landscape designer. Clément has taken this approach, which was developed for private gardens, and worked with celebrated architects - most recently, Jean Nouvel - to apply it in his large city parks, including Parc Citroën, the park at the Grande Arche de La Défense, and the museum park at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. The high artistic caliber of his designs is attested by exhibitions and installations at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA in Montreal and the Centre Pompidou, where they stand beside the work of Daniel Buren, Nan Goldin, and others. Gilles Clément has been presenting his contribution to landscape architecture for decades in more than thirty publications and numerous lectures throughout the world. This is the first comprehensive English-language monograph on his work.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
189
45 s/w Abbildungen, 189 farbige Abbildungen
45 b/w and 189 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Width: 28 cm
Weight
2085 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8781-5 (9783764387815)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alessandro Rocca ist Architekt, Architekturkritiker und Professor an der Polytechnischen Hochschule Mailand.
Content
Introduction, by Gilles Clément.- Interview with Gilles Clément.- Castle Park, Blois.- Quai Branly Museum Garden, Paris.- Parc Henri Matisse, Euralille, Lille.- Cloister Gardens, Somme region.- Fountain for Cultural Department, La Réunion.- Parc André Citroen, Paris.- Private "Garden in Movement" of Gilles Clément, Creuse region.- Mediterranean Park Typology.- Gardens of the Grand Arche, Paris.