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"Until now, writings about the architect/landscape architect Georges Descombes have been relatively limited, appearing primarily in publications in Switzerland and abroad as conversations, interviews, and conference proceedings; most of them have appeared only in French. However, during his forty years of practice, Descombes has developed and applied a method unique to landscape architecture, one in which an extremely broad vision, both scientifically and culturally, shapes his thinking and projects. Descombes enters each project by attempting to understand the existing conditions on site and how, using minimal means and interventions, those conditions can be modified to meet the requirements of the program and those appropriate to the natural or urban environment. To some critics it would appear that Descombes has always done too little on and to the site, and in some instances have condemned him for "doing almost nothing." Although simplicity usually demands greater concentration and study, it often yields greater rewards that result from just that restraint. Perhaps how we approach the world is more important that how we shape the world. Descombes's landscapes are instructive in this regard. In our current era, the concern for the planet as a whole, its dwindling resources, the despoiling of its air, water, and land, and an exploding population have skewed the profession's focus toward sustainability, ecology, resilience, and other related concerns. In the process, the social role played by landscape architecture has been lessened, if not forgotten, and the role of form, space, composition, and materials--that is to say the aesthetic dimension of landscape design--has become a distant concern. Descombes's practice strikes that vital balance between effective environmental performance and the ethical creation of beauty. Instead of favoring one pursuit over the other, or relying on a delimiting specialization, he works in a way that may be justifiably regarded as both/and rather than either/or - a comprehensive vision that weds nature and culture, landscape and architecture, people and milieu."--

Landscape architecture --- 712.07 --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur ; tuin- en landschapsarchitecten (A - Z) --- Descombes, Georges, --- 712.24 --- Landschapsarchitectuur ; 1990-2018 ; G. Descombes --- Openbaar groen --- Descombes, Georges °1948(?) (°Zwitserland) --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur ; cultuurlandschappen --- Landschapsarchitectuur --- Le Corbusier --- Descombes, Georges

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Hirschhorn, Thomas --- Descombes, Georges --- Erkmen, Ayse --- Floyer, Ceal --- Fraser, Andrea --- Grand, Toni --- Janin, Zuzanna --- Perrin, Carmen --- Sander, Karin --- Tolle, Brian --- Venlet, Richard

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Description et illustration des principaux parcs publics urbains d'Europe. [SDM].

Urban parks --- Parks --- Gardens --- Landscape architecture --- Landscape architects --- Parcs urbains --- Parcs --- Jardins --- Architecture du paysage --- Architectes paysagistes --- History --- Biography. --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Paysagisme --- Parc urbain --- Jardin public --- Bambou --- Espace public --- Chemetoff, Alexandre --- Descombes, Georges --- Hertzberger, Herman --- Perrault, Dominique --- Années 1980 --- Années 1990 --- Panorama mondial --- Europe --- Parc public --- Public parks --- Aménagement du paysage --- Landscaping --- Paysage --- Landscape --- Urbanisation --- Urbanization --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- France --- Spain --- Switzerland --- Germany --- Netherlands --- Lebanon --- Portugal --- Great Britain --- Parken --- Perrault, Dominique, --- Perrault, Dominique, 1953 --- -Panorama mondial --- Espaces verts --- Planification --- 1970-....

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South of Geneva, Switzerland, the River Aire runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. From the late 19th century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, also causing the gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals. In 2001, decisions were taken to re-naturalise the river. Yet rather than to merely reconstruct its former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied 'topographic imagination', a method termed by American landscape designer Elissa Rosenberg. It combines the embanked channel with a newly designed pasture landscape. The channel indicates a work in progress and serves as a reference line that makes 'before' and 'after' traceable. This new book documents this much recognised, award-winning re-naturalisation project with drawings, images of construction work and of the new waterway. Essays and comments by international contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Marc Treib demonstrate how the restored River Aire has been upgraded to become again a characteristic feature of this landscape on the fringe of the city.

Cours d'eau --- Aménagement du paysage --- Restauration écologique --- Architecture du paysage --- Eau dans l'architecture du paysage --- Landscape architecture --- Water in landscape architecture --- Stream restoration --- Descombes, Georges, --- Atelier Descombes Rampini --- Rivieren --- Natuurbeheer ; oevers --- Rivière --- Canal --- Projet de paysage --- Réhabilitation de paysage --- Voie d'eau --- Aménagement des berges --- Landscape architecture - Switzerland --- Water in landscape architecture - Switzerland --- Stream restoration - Switzerland - Aire River --- Stream restoration - Switzerland --- Aménagement du paysage --- Restauration écologique

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Catalogue de l'exposition "Biennale de Paris"montrant la place de choix que l'architecture tient entre toutes les formes de plus en plus diversifiées de la création. L'architecture renaît, elle est oeuvre, elle est lieu, le lieu de la création et le lieu de la présentation de l'oeuvre. Elle est pyramide, Parthénon, Tour de Babel, ou Louvre. Le thème choisi pour cette année 1985 illustre cette dualité, pour ne pas dire l'ambiguité de l'architecture actuelle.

72.036 --- Biennale de Paris --- 72.078 --- Biennale de Paris ; architectuur ; 1985 --- 72.038 --- (069) --- 72:747 --- architectuur --- twintigste eeuw --- Ando Tadao --- Baller Hinrich & Inken --- Böhm Gottfried --- Bosch Theo --- Botta Mario --- Descombes Georges --- Domenig Günther --- Erskine Ralph --- van Eyck Aldo --- Foster Norman --- Gaudin Henri --- Gehry Frank O --- Hopkins Michael --- Kovatsch Manfred --- Kroll Lucien --- Lafour Lucien --- Maki Fumihiko --- Moneo Rafael --- Murphy/Jahn --- Piano Renzo --- de Portzamparc Christian --- Siza Vieira Alvaro --- SOM --- Souto de Moura Eduardo --- Steidle otto --- Vacchini Livio --- Weber/Brand --- Alvera Alessandro --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuurtentoonstellingen --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- (Musea. Collecties) --- Architectuur en interieurarchitectuur --- Exhibitions --- Architecture --- biennials [exhibitions] --- Paris --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Architecture contemporaine --- Chareau, Pierre --- Guimard, Hector --- Labrouste, Henri --- 20e siècle --- Panorama mondial --- Interior architecture --- Space (Architecture) --- Architecture intérieure --- Espace (Architecture) --- Expositions --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture, Postmodern --- Exhibitions.