{"title":"Experiments in landscape architecture in 1970s France: The Cergy-Pontoise Recreational Park","authors":"Suzanne Rey","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2110424","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recreational parks, much like new towns, can be considered as ‘places of memory’. 1 They mark a complete renewal of French planning policies from the mid-1960s onwards, which were linked to the emergence of a new urban and landscape utopia. At the dawn of its 50th anniversary, the Cergy-Pontoise Recreational Park can be seen as an original and emblematic case study of such landscape designs. It was a laboratory for a young generation of landscape architects, in which they were able to develop and implement principles that are at the heart of teaching the profession in France today. These include observing the terrain, considering the site as a resource for the designed landscape, mastering earthworks and accompanying processes of landscape transformation. The park design allows us to re-examine the questions that landscape architects had to face and the formal answers they brought. We will confront them with today’s design practice and role of landscape architecture in order to reflect on the contemporary context of urban and territorial transition.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"98 1","pages":"70 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2110424","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Recreational parks, much like new towns, can be considered as ‘places of memory’. 1 They mark a complete renewal of French planning policies from the mid-1960s onwards, which were linked to the emergence of a new urban and landscape utopia. At the dawn of its 50th anniversary, the Cergy-Pontoise Recreational Park can be seen as an original and emblematic case study of such landscape designs. It was a laboratory for a young generation of landscape architects, in which they were able to develop and implement principles that are at the heart of teaching the profession in France today. These include observing the terrain, considering the site as a resource for the designed landscape, mastering earthworks and accompanying processes of landscape transformation. The park design allows us to re-examine the questions that landscape architects had to face and the formal answers they brought. We will confront them with today’s design practice and role of landscape architecture in order to reflect on the contemporary context of urban and territorial transition.
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JoLA is the academic Journal of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), established in 2006. It is published three times a year. JoLA aims to support, stimulate, and extend scholarly debate in Landscape Architecture and related fields. It also gives space to the reflective practitioner and to design research. The journal welcomes articles addressing any aspect of Landscape Architecture, to cultivate the diverse identity of the discipline. JoLA is internationally oriented and seeks to both draw in and contribute to global perspectives through its four key sections: the ‘Articles’ section features both academic scholarship and research related to professional practice; the ‘Under the Sky’ section fosters research based on critical analysis and interpretation of built projects; the ‘Thinking Eye’ section presents research based on thoughtful experimentation in visual methodologies and media; the ‘Review’ section presents critical reflection on recent literature, conferences and/or exhibitions relevant to Landscape Architecture.