Girot, Christophe
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE MAR. 4, 2011
Academic, designer
Affiliations:
- Founder of ILA Zurich, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Institute of Landscape Architecture (ETH Zurich), 2001 to the present
- Principal, Atelier Girot, 2001 to the present
Key projects:
- Central Campus, 2006 to 2010: Zurich, Zurich (Canton), Switzerland
- Parco di Castello, 2009 to 2009: Florence, Italy
- Lower Don Lands, Competition entry, 2007 to 2007: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Papers and other published materials:
- Girot, C. (2006). Vision in Motion: Representing Landscape in Time (pp. 87-104). In The Landscape Urbanism Reader. (pp. 87-103) New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Education:
- Master of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1987 to 1990
- Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, to 1986
Intellectual positions:
- A vision for the site should be primary, not the plan.
- It is important to document the gaps between places of beauty.
- The limitations of current forms of representation preclude a genuine sense of place.
- Videos and other techniques can help provide a Vision for a site.
- When the literal substrate and nature of places is lost. Landscape becomes optional.
