Overview
- Sensational projects in USA, Japan and France serve as a source of inspiration
- Collaborations with Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron
- With essays by internationally famous authors Gilles Tiberghien and James Corner
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About this book
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.
About the authors
Gilles Tiberghien is a philosopher and an author in the field of Land Art.
James Corner is an internationally known landscape designer and theorist and professor for landscape architecture at the Pennsylvania University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intermediate Natures
Book Subtitle: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne
Authors: James Corner, Gilles A. Tiberghien
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8952-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 200
Number of Illustrations: 137 b/w illustrations, 356 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Architecture