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Catherine Mosbach - "nature was my playground"
Posted 25 02 2020
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach is internationally celebrated for her environmentally and socially responsible approach to landscape design.
Founder of the Paris based office Mosbach Paysagistes, her designs reveal hidden layers in the landscape, and can be up to ten years in the making.
During a NZILA lecture tour in New Zealand last year, sponsored by Streetscape, she told LAA that her love of nature was nurtured during a carefree childhood in the countryside “not limited by rules or control”. Those years, she says, had a huge influence on her, and were as important as anything she later learned at the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles.
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Her portfolio includes several large-scale projects around the world. But she says because landscape is universal language is no barrier. The first thing is to learn about the local place because each country has its own climate, spirit or tradition. Landscape is a gift to learn about the world, she says.
Mosbach’s major projects include the botanical garden of Bordeaux, the park of the Louvre Lens and the Gateway Park in Taiwan.
Watch the video to find out why she became involved in the profession, and what she thinks it should aim to achieve.
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