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La création dans les jardins historiques, peut-on “continuer l’histoire”? by Angèle DENOYELLE – Archives du Calvados
Creation in historic gardens, can we ‘continue history’?
Belatedly acknowledged as historic monuments in their own right, due to their living nature, historic gardens represent a major paradox: that of preserving heritage that is subject to perpetual change. Should we place priority on restoring a given historic state, preserving an inherited state – where several successive states enter into dialogue – or on allowing the garden to continue to evolve as it has always done? Angèle Denoyelle will present the work towards her thesis, seeking to demonstrate how the landscaping project is a legitimate approach towards restoring gardens and how, when taking into account the various aspects of gardens (surface and shape of the area, limits, plants, atmosphere, usage or cultural references), it can not only enable the site’s memory to be preserved, but also offer improved understanding of the spacial structure of the landscape, hence revealing its potentialities.
Angèle Denoyelle
Angèle Denoyelle is a landscape-designer and associate lecturer at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture, where she associates teaching on landscape, heritage and the history of gardens. She is currently preparing a thesis on the role of the creation project in historic gardens, at the University of Paris-Est Créteil, under the supervision of Jean-Paul Midant. Her work benefits from support from the Fondation des Parcs et Jardins de France (French Foundation of Parks and Gardens), via the Michel Baridon bursary which she was awarded in 2020. Her activity as a landscaper focuses essentially on historic gardens. Hence, she has worked on restoring the gardens of the Villa Medici under the supervision of Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments from 2017 to 2019, and is currently working on several independent heritage studies and restoration projects.