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Le jardin et le prince, pouvoir et esthétique by Michael JAKOB – Château de Bénouville
The garden and the prince: power and aesthetics
Michael Jakob
Michael Jakob is a professor in history and landscape theory at the hepia engineer school in Geneva, professor in comparative literature at the University of Grenoble, lecturer at the EPFL in Lausanne and visiting professor at the GSD (Harvard). He studied law, philosophy, German and French literature, together with comparative literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Stanford, Paris and Geneva. He has acted as invited professor at the Universities of Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Heidelberg, Fribourg, ETH, Rome, Urbino, Turin, Cosenza, UPF Barcelona, etc. He is the founder and director of THE COMPAR(A)ISON journal and the “di monte in monté” collection (Tarara’, Italy), as well as director of the Paysage collection (Infolio, Gollion).
Further reading :
La poétique du banc, Editions Macula, 2014
The Swiss touch in landscape architecture, Verbania, 2013
Mirei Shigemori e il nuovo linguaggio del giardino giapponese, Verbania, 2012
ASP Architecture du paysage, Gollion, 2012
100 Paysages, Gollion 2011
Le jardin et les arts : les enjeux de la représentation, Gollion, 2009
Le Paysage, Gollion, 2008
Paysage et temps, Gollion, 2007