Gardens, Landscape, and Nature's Genius
This book, Gardens, Landscape, and Nature’s Genius, is a straight forward way to Gilles Clément's key concepts and a rareopportunity to access his original mindset and gain insight into a place of inspiration and co-creation with nature. Clément’s words and work are more relevant now than ever, presenting a tremendously powerful and relevant impetus for rethinking our present and future relationships with nature, garden culture, and sustainability.
The text is origianally written in 2011 as Clément’s inaugural lecture at the prestigious Collège de France in Paris now being translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by Clément’s own illustrations and a selection of new photographs from his La Vallée garden in Creuse – his remarkable planetary laboratory by the artist Maria Finn, the architect Anna Aslaug Lund, the landscape architect Laura Parsons and the landscape architect and translator Elzelina Van Melle.
This book, Gardens, Landscape, and Nature’s Genius, is a straight forward way to Gilles Clément's key concepts and a rareopportunity to access his original mindset and gain insight into a place of inspiration and co-creation with nature. Clément’s words and work are more relevant now than ever, presenting a tremendously powerful and relevant impetus for rethinking our present and future relationships with nature, garden culture, and sustainability.
The text is origianally written in 2011 as Clément’s inaugural lecture at the prestigious Collège de France in Paris now being translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by Clément’s own illustrations and a selection of new photographs from his La Vallée garden in Creuse – his remarkable planetary laboratory by the artist Maria Finn, the architect Anna Aslaug Lund, the landscape architect Laura Parsons and the landscape architect and translator Elzelina Van Melle.
This book, Gardens, Landscape, and Nature’s Genius, is a straight forward way to Gilles Clément's key concepts and a rareopportunity to access his original mindset and gain insight into a place of inspiration and co-creation with nature. Clément’s words and work are more relevant now than ever, presenting a tremendously powerful and relevant impetus for rethinking our present and future relationships with nature, garden culture, and sustainability.
The text is origianally written in 2011 as Clément’s inaugural lecture at the prestigious Collège de France in Paris now being translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by Clément’s own illustrations and a selection of new photographs from his La Vallée garden in Creuse – his remarkable planetary laboratory by the artist Maria Finn, the architect Anna Aslaug Lund, the landscape architect Laura Parsons and the landscape architect and translator Elzelina Van Melle.
