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French Landscape Architect Explores the "Third Landscape"03-26-07 | News

French Landscape Architect Explores the "Third Landscape"




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French landscape architect Gilles Cl??ment's "chandelier" sculpture of trash (cell phones, pens, hypodermic needles, packaging, etc.) and self-seeded plants all cast in acrylic is among his work on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montr??al. Cl??ment has designed numerous public and private parks and gardens in Europe and Asia.


The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montr??al, Quebec, Canada presents "Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow" in its main galleries through June 10, 2007. This major exhibition is on the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Cl??ment and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm.

Cl??ment provides photography, sculpture, slide projections and text panels to explore his concept of the third landscape, that is, the "natural environment that is irreversibly altered by human intervention." He has written a book on this subject and is also author of The Garden in Movement and The Planetary Garden, among others.

Cl??ment proposes allowing neglected city spaces to develop according to natural processes and with limited human intervention. His fellow exhibitor, architect Philippe Rahm, suggests that close observation and documentation of environmental conditions??"all which have a direct physical and emotional impact on people??"should guide the function of a space and the human behavior within it.

For more information, visit www.cca.qc.ca.

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