writing on architecture and landscape

The gardens of Paris: between engineering and scenography

In Le Grand Pari(s) d’Alphand. Création et transmission d’un paysage urbain. Edited by Michel Audouy, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Yann Nussaume, and Chiara Santini.

The art of mise-en-scène, long an important reference for landscape architecture and the art of gardens, became a dangerous metaphor for the creators of the public parks and gardens in Paris during the French Second Empire.