Gilles Clément (; born at
Argenton-sur-Creuse
Argenton-sur-Creuse (, ) is a commune in the Indre department in central France.
Geography
Argenton-sur-Creuse lies on the river Creuse, about 28 km southwest of Châteauroux. Argenton-sur-Creuse station has rail connections to Vierzon, ...
,
Indre
Indre (); is a department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administrative region of Cent ...
, France in 1943), is a French gardener, garden designer, botanist, entomologist and writer. He is the author of several concepts in the framework of
landscaping
Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following:
# Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal ...
of the end of the twentieth century or the beginning of the twenty-first century, including in particular, 'moving garden' (jardin en mouvement), 'planetary garden' (jardin planétaire) and 'third landscape' (tiers paysage).
He has gained attention for his design of public parks in France, such as Parc André-Citroën. In 1998, he was the recipient of France's National Landscape Prize.
Since 1977 he has developed his own "moving garden" (le jardin en mouvement) at La Vallée, Creuse.
Clément designed the exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; ) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street) and rue Saint-Ma ...
in 2006.
Main achievements
* André-Citroën Park in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
, with Allain Provost and Patrick Berger
* Jardins de l'Arche in Paris la Défense,
*
Parc Henri Matisse
The Parc Henri Matisse is a public park and gardens in the Euralille district of Lille, adjacent to Lille-Europe station.
The park was designed by Gilles Clément, after he opposed plans to construct a multi-purpose urban building in this locatio ...
in Euralille with Éric Berlin and Sylvain Flipo
* Valloires Garden in Argoules
* Garden of the
Château de Blois
A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...
* Garden of the domaine du Rayol
* Garden of the
Quai Branly museum in Paris, with
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel (; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of ''Mars 1976'' and ''Syndicat de l'Architecture'', France’s first labor union for architects. He has ob ...
* Garden of the École normale supérieure de Lyon
* Garden of the
Château de Châtenay-en-France
* Garden of the
Château de Beauregard, Loire Valley
References
Parc paysager du
Château de Beauregard, Loire Valley
1943 births
Living people
21st-century French botanists
French entomologists
French landscape architects
20th-century French botanists
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