
The landscape is a space of freedom. For a landscape designer like Jean Chevalier, who has escaped from architecture, it allows us to rethink our relationship with the living world, viewed as a subject in its own right within a movement: the trees that move, the passage of time, the retreating coastline, society moving forward. Accepting this letting go means transitioning from object to subject, entering into a game that is both strict and flexible. Jean Chevalier workshop plays this game using a simple vocabulary (bump, mound, furrow, ditch, etc.) and a radical iconography (theatrical, pictorial, spontaneous, etc.). When combined with a specific site and a particular history, they create a sequence that engages with contemporary issues: conveying raw materials, adapting living monuments, producing minimal effort. At the scale of island hearts that often beat too faintly, schoolyards suffocating in coldness, heritage gardens seeking a future, and public spaces for audiences searching for a place, the workshop integrates site anchoring with the transversality of the landscape, culture with functionality, and letting go with heritage. Hello!






Thibault Chalamet
Jean Chevalier
Zoé Duchauvel
Camille Michel
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Thibault Chalamet
Jean Chevalier
Zoé Duchauvel
Camille Michel

