The Spring 2014 issue of Ground magazine features an article by Daniels Faculty MLA student Kaari Kitawi on the exhibition Andre Le Nôtre in Perspective 1613-2013. Curated by Associate Professor Georges Farhat, along with Béatrix Saule and Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin, the exhibition ran from October 22, 2013 to February 23, 2014 at the Château de Versaille.

Farhat has studied Andre Le Notre’s work for more than two decades, reports Kitawi. Known as one of the founders of the practice of landscape architecture, Le Nôtre designed the gardens of Versailles, Chantilly, the Tuileries and future Champs Elysées, as well as many other places in and around Paris, and elsewhere in France and abroad (including gardens in England’s Greenwich Park, Italy’s Racconigi Park, and Het Loo Palace in the Netherlands). The exhibition is the largest showcase dedicated to an early-modern garden designer.

“The exhibition has been a collaborative process involving fieldwork, archival research, writing, and editing," writes Kitawi. "Several students from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design were involved in putting together materials for the exhibition, either as research assistants though the Work Study program or as participants in a seminar on the 20th- to 21st-century legacy of the French formal garden.”

Farhat and Bouchenot-Déchin edited a companion book to the exhibition, also titled André Le Nôtre in Perspective. It includes 35 refereed essays in both French and in English.

A PDF of the full Ground article is available here.

For more information on the exhibition, visit the exhibition’s website.

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