The garden and the prince: power and aesthetics

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