Christophe Girot

Christophe Girot (born in France, based in Switzerland) is a landscape architect, professor, and director of Atelier Girot. He taught at ETH Zurich from 2001 until becoming professor emeritus in 2023. Girot is recognized for pioneering digital and topographic methods in landscape architecture, particularly through his “Four Trace Concepts” of landing, grounding, finding, and founding, which frame design as both spatial and temporal inscription. His built works include the ETH Zurich Central Campus master plan and topographic interventions for AlpTransit in Ticino. Widely exhibited, including at MoMA’s Groundswell, Girot is noted for bridging technological innovation with cultural acceptance, positioning landscape architecture as both visionary and politically grounded.

Dr. Anette Freytag is a relentless researcher, moving between academia, activism, and public engagement. She taught at ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Technical University of Innsbruck before joining Rutgers University, where she is the Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Freytag […]

With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2

Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.

Soundscapes The experience of silence and sound in the landscape International Landscape Study Days Thursday 22-Friday 23 February 2024, Treviso and online Friday 16 February 2024, from 5 pm, online preview The 20th edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben […]

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