INTERMEDIATE NATURES The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

Description

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.

CONTENTS

1. Formations of Nature Defining the City

1.Rotterdam Biesboch Stad / Rotterdam Netherlands 2005 2.Plaine du Var France  3.Lower Lea Valley / London Great Britain 2004 in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron, 4.Burgos Urban Landscape Masterplan / Burgos Spain in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron

2. Transformation of a Territory

1.Lyon-Confluence / Lyon France, 2000-2004, 2.Bordeaux Rive Droite / Bordeaux France 2000-2004, 3.Millenium Park / London Great Britain 1997-2000,in cooperation with Richard Rogers 4.Grand Quartier de Port Marianne in Montpellier, France, 1998-2002

3. Landscape and Urban Expansion

1.Issoudun / France, 2005, 2.Cergy Pontoise / France 2006-2008, 3.Issoudun, Parc de Théols / France 1993-1994, 4.T.G.V. Station Méditéranée, Avignon, France 1994-2002

4. The significance of a Park in the Contemporary City

1.Governors Island / New York 200, 2.Cité Nature, Arras / France 2001-2005 in cooperation with Jean Nouvel, 3.Sculpture Park of Middelheim, Antwerp Belgium 1998-2000

5. Public Space

1.Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation / Dallas USA 2004-2008 in cooperation with Norman Foster & Partners and OMA, 2.Ile Séguin / Greater Paris France, 3.Extension of the old harbor / Antwerp Belgium 2001-2004, 4.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

1.Garden of the Ministry of Culture / Paris France 2001-2004, 2.Rue de Meaux / Paris France 1989-1992 in cooperation with Renzo Piano, 3.Utrecht Centraal Museum / Utrecht, Netherlands, 1998-2000

7. Transfer of a Landscape to an Urban «Surface»

1.Walker Art Center / Minneapolis, USA, 2002-2005 in cooperation with Herzog & de Meuron, 2.Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2004-2005

200 pages / 493 illus., 356 in color