What does it mean to regain possession of a place? How can we ensure that the identity of a space is enhanced in such...
The Colas Suspended Garden and the Buisson Optique
Bernard Lassus has reached unprecedented heights of creativity with two major projects, fighting against an...
250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know (+1)
There are two ways of reading a book, which vary according to the volume chosen. The first, the classic one, is to...
The incredible history of the Square du Vert-Galant
March 18 (or perhaps 11 according to some sources), 1314. A dense acrid smoke rises from an island of Paris, l’île aux...
Green gems in a red casket – strolling through gardens in Ferrara
Giving a definition of “garden” can be a very simple or extremely complex matter; it all depends on the approaching...
Staging Urban Landscapes – Contemporary approaches to the design of public spaces
The definition of public space, consulting a dictionary, is the following: “The space above or below public areas and...
Guevrekian, cubist gardener
The march of artistic transformation appears to be undaunted, and if the paintings of Saint-Lazare station in 1877...
The Functional Garden of Jean Canneel-Claes
When designing the garden of his home in Auderghem, Belgium, in 1931, Jean Canneel-Claes decided to stick to the...
The (possibly) Impressionist Garden of Claude Monet
For four centuries the art of gardens in France was dominated by the classical trend, and then, for about a century,...
Greening Ciompi Square – Memory of a landscaping action
It’s been six years, so I can’t use the once upon a time yet. But this narrative has the taste of a fairy tale, at...
Il progetto urbano sostenibile
The city is the place where we live. A simple statement, but that contains an immeasurable reality of facts. True for...
Art and Garden – Parallel Divergences
The relationship between art and garden is one of the most topical issues of general interest today, but it has its...
The Hangar’s Garden
To stand in front of a sculpture by Melotti is in itself a remarkable estrangement. Space is cut off, not brutally,...