Author: Marc Treib and Alyssa SchwannAlexandre Chemetoff’s professional trajectory and practice has veered from small to large as well as large to small. In contrast to much of the verbiage about so-called “landscape urbanism,” his work at city-scale draws on his experience designing landscapes, using new methods to reinvigorate older areas of the city and their architecture, while simultaneously proposing new buildings and neighborhoods—an innovative and unique method. Early works by his office, the Bureau des paysages, such as the internationally celebrated Garden of Bamboo at the Parc de la Villette in Paris and the Place de la Bourse in Lyon are more easily identified as beautiful landscape architecture; less easily categorized are major renewal projects such as the Île de Nantes and the creation of a new neighborhood and re-creation of an existing quarter in Nancy. While these works, products of intelligent and thoughtful design, can rightly qualify as either landscape architecture or urban design, there really is no specific term for the process that produced them.ISBN 9781966515623. ORO Editions. hb. .not yet published
