Landscape gardener

the Landscape gardener is a person able to create plans, and carrying a diploma of Bac+5 level recognized by the State and the association of the architects of gardens and the landscape gardeners. (see list of the formations diplômantes French-speaking schools of the landscape)

The Paysagiste is a person who creates in the field of the landscape, which conceives the project and which follows its realization. It has knowledge in a matter multitude (properties of végéteaux, techniques of construction, materials, perspective visualization, projection, topography, study of the landscape, history of the gardens,…).

The Garden or the contractor of green areas is that which implements work in your garden.

Relative standard test

The specificity of the landscape designer compared to the other professions is as follows:

with respect to the Environmentalist: in its aptitude to integrate subjective, cultural and social dimension of the landscape, and to implement its own creativity.
with respect to the Architect: in its aptitude to integrate not only the plant, but more generally complexity, the evolution and the uncertainty of an alive medium, Garden with the Territory, City with the Countryside.
with respect to the Town planner: in a culture and a professional history which takes its origin between the city, countryside and nature; in its aptitude to make Site the guide of the project (and not, contrary, to impose a project on a site), to privilege the relations between the objects (and not to treat the objects for their own individuality), to treat the articulations and to preserve empty spaces, and more generally to reconquer déstructurés spaces.

Complementary and partner of the ecologist and the Architect, dividing know-how with one or the other, the landscape designer merges for as much neither with one nor with the other, it is a speciality specific “to the Frenchwoman”. If the Architecte works on a defined project, the landscape designer, like the ecologist, manages a process which is only partially given. The ecologist is a Geographer, an engineer, a Scientifique, the landscape designer is a creator. He is more and more also regarded as a Médiateur and a Pédagogue, in the direction where its action is revealing inherent reality and modes of perceptions of our environment.

History of the profession

This profession " touch-with-tout" remain still difficle to be encircled for two reasons: on the one hand fact even of sound Interdisciplinarité; in addition because of the absence of regulation on the subject. Contrary to the profession of Architect, the occupation of landscape designer is not recognized juridically, and is thus subjected to no strict name. Since the 20th century, the engineer landscape designer works especially within agencies of landscape and makes studies as well as missions of design and landscape realization of installation.

Landscape designers today

The landscape designers contribute in practice of his profession, with sustainable development through a triple step:

a multi-field analysis of the context: thanks to the comparison of cultural scientific informations, techniques and several fields, the landscape designer obtains an image " multicouche" reality of a space or a territory.
a teaching action: by representing this reality in a comprehensible form by the general public, it communicates its vision of the landscapes, the territories and the mediums of life so as to make some seize the modes and the dynamic ones of evolution, the advantages and problems to come if this evolution continues, the stakes relating to the control of this evolution.
a creative action: while conceiving and by organizing taking part and/or implementation of new spaces to be built in the preparation of plans of managements of existing spaces so as to increase the balance and the diversity of the environment.

French-speaking schools of the landscape

3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the landscape of Versailles (ENSPV) with Versailles
3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of architecture and landscape of Bordeaux (EAP Bx.) to Bordeaux
3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of architecture and landscape of Lille (ENSAPL) to Lille
3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of nature and the landscape (ENSNP) to Blois
National institute of horticulture (INH) to Angers
University of architecture of the gardens and the landscapes (ESAJ) to Paris
School of engineers de Lullier with Geneva, Swiss
industrial Institute of higher learning of Gembloux (ISI) to Gembloux, Belgium
Institute Arthur Haulot- HELDB with Brussels, Belgium
Institute of Architecture of the University of Geneva ()
School of architecture and landscape of Montreal (EAPM) to Montreal, Canada

See too

External bonds

In France

French federation of Landscape
French federation of Landscape, South-eastern Section
French federation of Landscape, South-western Section
National union of the contractors of the landscape

International federations

European Federation off Landscape Structures off
Interational Federation Landscape Architecture
Belgian Association of the Architects of Gardens and of the Landscape gardeners
Canadian Society off Landscape Architecture

Other sites

the site of the landscape gardeners
* Topos, international magazine of landscape
the council of the Quebec Landscape
Landscape gardener and other professions

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