Several accounts bear witness to the fertility and abundance of gardens around North African cities in the Ottoman period, without for as much indicating a marked divide with the medieval period.
Despite no early vocation in the field, Pascal Cribier (1953 – 2015) became one of the leading landscapers of his generation.
As the closing event for the exhibition of the finalist projects in the Ideas Competition for the redevelopment of the gardens in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels, the non-profit organization Quartier des Arts is hosting an evening debate attended by the eight finalist teams of landscape architects.
The exhibition presents the eight finalist projects of the competition launched in October 2024 by the non-profit organisation Quartier des Arts, which aims to reimagine the three gardens in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels in the perspective of Belgium’s bicentenary anniversary.
These international days on the restoration and management of historic gardens aim to be a meeting place for professionals in landscape architecture, ecology, history and public administration.
As a result of discoveries made over recent archaeological excavations initiated in 2017, this exhibition will highlight the leading historic and artistic features of the Château de Noisy over the 16th and 17th centuries.
The department of Oise is a land of gardens, from the most famous to the most secret. The area has long-since been a cradle of experimentation and sometimes avant-garde creation, of which it continues to preserve the memory and the realisations.
Motivated by a new conception of nature and inspired by the design of the landscaped garden, the first players of the English School of painting that emerged during the 18th century gradually instrumentalised landscape art to serve the accurate representation of nature, recognisable and resolutely British.
This original temporary exhibition invites us to rethink the gardener’s hand in our contemporary era.
Conference organised by the AMAB (Modern architectural archives of Brittany.
This year’s Freÿr study day will focus on the various meanings of gardens throughout history and societal changes, as unique places where utility and pleasure meet, serving as spaces for both cultivation and meditation.
Landscape is comprised of space and time. Beyond the diversity of its definitions, its acceptations and manifestations, landscape always refers to a portion of space, be it produced, described, experienced or represented – and generally all of these combined.
This one-day event will strive to provoke reflection on the evolution of landscape and new approaches and techniques aimed at taking care of it… and of ourselves.
This photographic exhibition by Frédéric Soreau will offer an insight into different types of Japanese gardens, distinguishable through their design and form.
4 October 2025 Parc Gulbenkian, Deauville ©Institut Européen des Jardins & Paysages A day to rediscover the Gulbenkian Park This
Hermann Hesse was not only one of the most important German-language writers of the 20th century, but also a passionate gardener.
Landscape Architecture has existed for now almost 250 years. During this period it scarcely ever intended a history of its own doing. Is it however possible to trace lines of tradition, family trees and other relations bewteen its protagonists?
Ten years after Pascal Cribier’s passing, the Association des Amis de Pascal Cribier and Royaumont Abbey are organising a two-day encounter including round tables on the theme of gardens, nature and landscape.
Symposium organised by Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage (Research laboratory on landscape projects), Ecole nationale supérieure de paysage (National Graduate Landscaping School).
This event is organised on the occasion of the centenary of Gustave Fayet’s passing (1865-1925).
Following the two-day event held in Wassenaar (2022) and De Steeg (2023), the Vakgroep Groen Erfgoed (Department of Green Heritage) is organising a third study day on the work and influence of Eduard Petzold, essentially focusing on the development and maintenance of landscaped parks.
“It was on my first visit to the Gardens of Versailles that I truly fell in love with trees. Although I was fond of them well before the start of my professional career, I realised that I hadn’t truly and attentively observed them – they were just part of my environment.”
The Nancy-born photographer Julien Gérardin (1860-1924) was a prolific artist. A genuine pioneer of colour photography, he produced over 6,000 autochrome images.
An exhibition of around twenty colour photographs from the Albert Khan Museum collection.
The chaniwa, which literally translates as ‘tea garden’, is the third type of garden to emerge in Japan after ‘mountain and water’ gardens, san sui tei, then ‘dry’ gardens, kare san sui.
The Royal Museum Łazienki is renowned for its neo-classical monuments set amidst meticulously maintained historic gardens. There are three main gardens here: the Royal, Romantic and Modernist gardens.
Enlightened by 20 years of experience and a vast number of international publications reporting the impact on health of plant meditation, this symposium will offer a functional review of this mode of therapeutic support.
On the occasion of the centenary of the Cité Internationale and its 8th edition, the Jardins du Monde en Mouvement festival will be hosting five new fleeting landscape creations within its 34-hectare grounds.
The second edition of the colloquium on ‘Gardens & Literature’ will follow in the footsteps of the first edition, held in Caen in 2019.
Faced with the simultaneous threat of water scarcity and the risk of flooding due to climate change, Les Ateliers de Cergy proposes that we take a fresh look at the Seine Basin.
This exhibition retraces the story of seed manufacturing in the Essonne area via a selection of archives, bibliographical works and emblematic objects.
As of the Renaissance period, the upper classes left major towns to settle in their country residences. Among these popular pleasure homes, the royal estate of Marly, a perfect illustration of this trend, is highlighted in this exhibition.
The vegetable garden of the Domaine de la Grange-la-Prévôté offers an opportunity to rediscover old varieties and to understand their role in modern horticultural practice.
Gardens and residences are interrelated and influence each other in their creation, development and significance.
‘Original Gardens’ is an event organised by the Calvados CAUE.
Certain words resonate from within like ancient echoes, ancestral reminiscences: ‘forest’ is one of them.
This exhibition will focus on the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 – Aranjuez, 1931) in the Gardens of the Generalife where the artist created a vast share of his work.
Ever since Gilles Clément became a central figure in the French and international gardening and landscape scene in the mid 1980s, a multitude of books; articles, research projects, recordings and graphic reports have sought to analyse his work and his mindset.
Symposium organised by the research centres TIL (Université de Bourgogne) and EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3).
Study day part of the 22nd edition of the Rendez-vous aux jardins.
From the 1880s to the late 1930s, the Japonisme vogue developed throughout the Western World.
The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connections on gardens around the world.
For the first time, the Palace of Versailles is opening its doors for an virtual reality journey back in time.
Within the context of its 2025 cultural season, entitled ‘Paysage vivant’ (Living Landscape), which will focus on the relationship between large landscapes and the living species they compose and host, the Château de la Roche-Guyon will be welcoming the photographer Olivier Verley in residence.
The Château de Fontainebleau is organising its second edition of the ‘Grandeur Nature’ exhibition, this time to evoke ‘The spirit of the forest’.
Interventions on selected sites in the Centre-Val de Loire region, from ancient times to the present day, unveiling how water determines landscape and garden design.
