Michel Corajoud

Michel Corajoud (1937–2014, France) - French landscape architect, regarded as a founder of the discipline’s renewal in the late 20th century. Trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs, he collaborated with Jacques Simon and later co-directed a practice with Claire Corajoud, his partner in life and work. Corajoud’s projects and writings emphasized continuity between architecture and the open spaces of the city, challenging the horticultural bias of earlier generations. In 2003, he was awarded the Grand Prix de l’urbanisme, affirming the centrality of landscape to contemporary urbanism.

The challenge was to create a new park in the chain of the parks on the banks of the River Rhône: a space for observing free nature and the open urban place. The “Urban Nature Park” proposed here reconciles public functions with the great natural quality of the site.

Today, the possibility arises to define a new design approach to address issues of environmental and social justice in the urban context. Based on an integrated understanding of the interdependencies involving human and environmental relations, the applied-philosophy approach for landscape architectural practices induces a paradigm shift in spatial design. Rather than applying downstream solutions to […]

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