Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The revealing process in contemporary French landscape architecture
I had my first landscape experience with Jacques Simon almost ten years ago. While on a field trip in Burgundy, he asked the students of the landscape school in Versailles to lie down on a steep hill, in silence, for about twenty minutes. It was an early morning in September and the earth was wet. Among 45 other people, this moment was at first disturbing and uncomfortable; at that point, I remembered St Exupery' s Little Prince observing the earth for his first time. But it was more than observing here with Simon. After a few moments, this almost religious act produced some effects: I slowly began to be more open to what was around me; I was in visual contact with the trees, fields and river while experiencing the wind and sun on my face. Underneath me, I was in physical contact with the earth and its movements. The shape of the hill, its steepness and the water evaporating from it were the first elements indicating that the earth was an active ground. These twenty minutes became essential to me, where I understood that my body was a means of capturing what was around, above and underneath me.
The revealing process in contemporary French landscape architecture
I had my first landscape experience with Jacques Simon almost ten years ago. While on a field trip in Burgundy, he asked the students of the landscape school in Versailles to lie down on a steep hill, in silence, for about twenty minutes. It was an early morning in September and the earth was wet. Among 45 other people, this moment was at first disturbing and uncomfortable; at that point, I remembered St Exupery' s Little Prince observing the earth for his first time. But it was more than observing here with Simon. After a few moments, this almost religious act produced some effects: I slowly began to be more open to what was around me; I was in visual contact with the trees, fields and river while experiencing the wind and sun on my face. Underneath me, I was in physical contact with the earth and its movements. The shape of the hill, its steepness and the water evaporating from it were the first elements indicating that the earth was an active ground. These twenty minutes became essential to me, where I understood that my body was a means of capturing what was around, above and underneath me.
The revealing process in contemporary French landscape architecture
Coignet, Philippe (Autor:in)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes ; 23 ; 93-101
01.06.2003
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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