Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne by Elizabeth Kugler

By Elizabeth Kugler

Michel Desvigne is not any doubt the main high-profile French panorama architect operating at the present time. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his initiatives are synonymous with a powerful strategic and conceptual part, motivated via insights from geography. site visitors initiatives additionally play a massive function in his paintings they underscore the competence of panorama structure in concerns of urban making plans. This thematic monograph records the foremost parts of Desvigne s paintings in person chapters: techniques of transformation, geography, territory, city constructions, and public squares. every one of those issues is vividly illustrated through chosen tasks, together with the Walker artwork heart in Minneapolis, the Dallas heart for the appearing Arts, the French Ministry of tradition in Paris, and Keio collage in Tokyo.

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Because of the size of the project and the time necessary for its completion, only a public structure could ensure completion. The resulting aesthetic is rather “rustic,” with an economy of means brought about by these constraints. 57 MILLENNIUM PARK, GREENWICH, LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN, 1997-2000 This park was intended to accommodate the events accompanying the millenary celebration, near the building designed by Richard Rogers. The planned site preceded the installation of future neighborhoods. Immediately usable, it would be managed like a forest landscape, creating diverse and evolving scenarios.

Within the framework of studies on the geological scale, such as those involving the Var Plain and Rotterdam, we had to compress into a few decades mechanisms that have endured for several millennia. In the case of urban transformations, very long construction time for our landscape structures paradoxically corresponds to very short times when compared to other historical periods of city building. In both cases, taking time into account led us to shorten it, thus strangely giving the feeling of a site anchored in its history and on its site.

Within the framework of studies on the geological scale, such as those involving the Var Plain and Rotterdam, we had to compress into a few decades mechanisms that have endured for several millennia. In the case of urban transformations, very long construction time for our landscape structures paradoxically corresponds to very short times when compared to other historical periods of city building. In both cases, taking time into account led us to shorten it, thus strangely giving the feeling of a site anchored in its history and on its site.

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