The title of our lecture: Living landscape

2024.02.15. csütörtök a Fórum I. terem: 12.15-13.00

"Wagon-Landscaping, founded by two landscape architects, François Vadepied and Mathieu Gontier, mainly works in France, Europe and Russia. Since 2010, the team has been completed with Estelle Ollivier, Camille Bourgeois, Madeleine Accarain, Léa Nourdin, Frédéric Jorel."

 

 

 

 

The title of our lecture: Living cities

 

Wagon-Landscaping, founded by two landscape architects, François Vadepied and Mathieu Gontier, mainly works in France, Europe and Russia. Since 2010, the team has been completed with Estelle Ollivier, Camille Bourgeois, Madeleine Accarain, Léa Nourdin, Frédéric Jorel.

 

Wagon-Landscaping philosophy keeps a gardener attitude in practicing and designing landscapes to “keep right for an experiment, observe and adapt”, to imagine places easy to use and maintain, pleasant to live in everyday life. Wagon Landscaping finds out and develops its projects concepts in practicing and gardening landscape, observing plants and nature’s dynamics. Projects impose restrictions on materials movement and limit energy consumption emphasizing recycling and ecological dynamics. In this way, minimalism could be the key word concerning the agency project.Following agency examples, Mathieu Gontier and François Vadepied will present projects experiences which guide a possible way of developing landscape, taking care to site and its constraints (climate, soils, uses, materials and available resources, etc.).  Based on self-made projects, and others experiences, they will emphasize how gardening attitude at " all scales" of project may help to think a possible future for city, based on ecological and sustainable dimension.

 

Mathieu Gontier, landscape architect, is Wagon landscaping co-founder. He has an initial training in Arts and in Russian language. With this background he graduated as landscape architect in 2007, keeping this relationship between art and landscape. He retains from his initial training the use of drawing as tool, for reflection and project. He is a teacher at the Versailles School of Landscape where he manages landscape master, in Marseille. He is co-responsible for the development of the agency and project management.

François Vadepied, landscape architect, is Wagon landscaping co-founder. He got initial diploma in geophysics and cartography at the IGN. In 2003, after fifteen years in the digital cartography field, he decided to radically change his work. He graduated as landscape architect in 2007. Since 2018, he became State landscape architect consultant in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department. He teaches at the National School of Landscape of Versailles and at Esaj, in Paris.He is co-responsible for the development of the agency and project management. He is particularly interested in the landscape project on questions relating to the quality of the spaces produced, plants dynamics and implementation frugality.