Giles Clement; the Gardner of Nature

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A famous theorist and one of the most active landscape architects in France, Gilles Clement was also the recipient of the French national landscape prize in 1998. Clement’s ecological approach in landscape architecture is manifest in his four theories known as Garden in Motion, The Planetary Garden, the Third Landscape and Gardens of Resistance. Each one of Clement’s professional projects is a realization of one of these theories. You can never guess the state of Clement’s gardens but his idea about gardens is always the same: “A garden is a persistent project. It produces goods, bears symbols, and accompanies dreams. It is accessible to everyone. It promises nothing and gives everything.”

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