Présentation de l'éditeur :
Landscape designer Gilles Clément and architect Philippe Rahm present their contrasting visions through installations created specifically for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and text and image-based essays outlining their philosophy and approach.
Gilles Clément advances his theory of Tiers paysage, a ground-breaking approach to abandoned or overlooked spaces in cities and the possibilities they offer. Untreated by man, such spaces are home to a rich variety of species and are seen as crucial to sustaining biological diversity in the future.
Philippe Rahm’s installation and essay “Form and Function Follow Climate” proposes a radical new way to address the use of energy in architecture. Rahm raises the possibility that climate and invisible aspects such as temporality, temperature, and humidity can replace typology, function, and spatial form in determining the way we use and define architecture.
An essay by Giovanna Borasi situates the opposing positions of Clément and Rahm within a larger cultural context, and opens a new discussion on the place of humans in relation to the environment.
Gilles Clément is a horticultural engineer, landscape designer, gardener, and writer. He teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage (ENSP) in Versailles.
Philippe Rahm is an architect based in Paris and Lausanne. He teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London, at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), and the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland.
Giovanna Borasi is an architect and Curator of Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. An editor and writer for architecture and design magazines (Lotus International from 1998 to 2005, Navigator from 2000 to 2003), she develops research on themes related to environmental and social aspects of architecture.
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