Gilles Clement

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Gilles Clément (born October 6, 1943 in Argenton-sur-Creuse ) is a French garden architect.

Life

Gilles Clément trained as a horticultural engineer in 1967 and as a landscape gardener in 1969 and has worked in the profession ever since. He has lived in Crozant since 1977 . In 1979 he began additional studies at the École nationale supérieure du paysage in Versailles .

Clément gained experience on trips outside of Europe, especially in Australia . In 1989 he started redesigning the Domaine du Rayol on the Mediterranean coast. In the same year, a garden for rare plants was set up in the Valloires monastery under his direction . His first major project was the Parc André Citroën in Paris , which was built in 1992 on an industrial site. In 2006 the Musée du quai Branly , which he helped design , was opened. In Germany in 2001 he designed the lily meadows in the Gräflichen Park in Bad Driburg as part of the “Garden Landscape OstWestfalenLippe ” project .

In 1991 he wrote the book La Vallée and since then he has published a large number of programmatic writings, specialist articles and books on garden architecture for a wider audience. In 2011/12 he was visiting professor at the Collège de France . He came up with the idea of ​​the "garden in motion" ("Le jardin en mouvement"). In addition to the manifesto of the third estate (1789), he put a Manifeste du Tiers Paysage in 2004 .

Clément was awarded the Grand Prix du paysage and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

Clément supported the Les Verts party , for which he ran as the bottom list candidate in the regional elections in 2010 , and the candidacy of politician Michèle Rivasi from the successor party Europe Écologie-Les Verts .

  • Gardens

  • Musée du quai Branly

  • Jardins de l'Arche, La Defense

  • Jardins de Valloires

  • Jardins de Valloires

  • Jardin du Tiers-Paysage, Estuaire, St-Nazaire

Works (selection)

  • Le Jardin en mouvement . Paris: Pandora, 1991
  • La Vallée . Paris: Pandora, 1991
  • Le Jardin en mouvement, de la Vallée au parc André-Citroën . Paris: Sens & Tonka, 1994 (revised new editions 1999, 2001, 2007)
  • Éloge des vagabondes. Herbes, arbres et fleurs à la conquête du monde . Paris: Nil Édition, May 2002 (rééd. Chez Robert Laffont, 2014)
  • La sagesse du jardinier . Paris: L'Œil Neuf, 2004
    • The gardener's wisdom . Brita Reimers in Romanian. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017
  • Gilles Clément, une écologie humaniste (with Louisa Jones), Avignon: Éditions Aubanel, 2006
  • Manifeste du Tiers-paysage . Montreuil: Sujet Objet, 2004 (revised 2014)
    • Third Landscape Manifesto . Berlin: Merve, 2010
  • with Alessandro Rocca: Neuf jardins. Approche du jardin planétaire . Arles: Actes Sud, 2008
  • Une brève histoire du jardin . Paris: L'Œil Neuf, 2011
  • Jardins, paysage et génie naturel . Paris: Collège de France / Fayard, coll. "Leçons Inaugurales du Collège de France", 2012
    • Gardens, landscape and the genius of nature: from ecological thinking . Brita Reimers in Romanian. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2015
  • Belvedere. Points de vue sur le paysage . Saint Benoît du Sault, Tarabuste, 2013
  • Les Imprévisibles . Paris: L'Une et l'Autre, 2013
  • L'Alternative ambiante . Paris: Sens & Tonka, 2014
  • Espèces vagabondes, menace ou bienfait? Toulouse: Editions Plume de Carotte, 2014
  • Abécédaire . Paris: Sens & Tonka, 2015
  • with Vincent Gravé: Un grand Jardin , Paris: Cambourakis, 2016
    • A large garden , Munich [among others]: Prestel, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Clement, Gilles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Argenton-sur-Creuse