L'habitant paysagiste
Garden by Bernard Lassus
DESIGNER
Bernard Lassus is a landscape architect and visual artist. He was born in 1929 in Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme). In 1952, he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then taught there between 1968 and 1998. He taught at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Horticulture de Versailles from 1963 to 1969, and created the Jardin noir in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1967, and the Jardin des retours in Rochefort-sur-Mer, which won the Ministry of Culture’s Heritage Prize in 1993. In 1975, he presented his astonishing research on the “landscaper inhabitant” at the Claude Lévi-Strauss seminar at the Collège de France. From 1976 to 1985, he was a lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles which he had helped establish. Since 1989, he has been responsible for many landscaping projects alongside motorways. He has presented his work all over the world including in Germany, the United States, Great Britain, Poland and Venezuela. He exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in 2011 and 2017. For the exhibition, Bernard Lassus: un art de la transformation, he laid out an 800 sq.m. Jardin monde (World garden) which explored the contemporary issues shaping the art of landscaping.