Talk – Gilles Clément – Brussels (Belgium)
The garden by definition welcomes and protects the idea of the “finest”, the most precious, that which allows us to live. The first garden is a source of food. It is enriched with ornamental species admired for their beauty in all seasons. Under Persian and Hispano-Moorish influences, the garden of the Western world was transformed into an architectural work of art charged with cosmological symbols. The classical European garden inherited this historical charge before giving way to a romantic approach to the landscape and then to exoticism and the “free” garden integrating spontaneous species.
Where are we today?
Is the garden an architectural structure, a plant collection or a place to live?
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Rue de l’Ermitage 55
1050 Brussels