Évolution de la pensée de James Corner et son rôle dans l’émergence du Landscape Urbanism

• Main Author: Imène Ouali-Bourahla
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Agrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP Lille 2021-09-01
• Series: Projets de Paysage
• Subjects: James Corner; theory of landscape architecture; the practice of landscape architecture; representation; Landscape Urbanism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/paysage/20880

The contemporary American landscape architect James Corner has made a major contribution to the development and renewal of landscape architecture in the United States. His approach and his projects are in line with the ideas of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), Jens Jensen (1860-1951) and Ian McHarg (1920-2001), emblematic figures who marked a turning point in the practice of landscape architecture. Since the beginning of the 1990s, James Corner has been working on the theory and practice of landscape architecture. This work is part of a paradigm shift ; it challenges, in the light of contemporary urban issues, the theoretical foundations, tools, and approaches of landscape architecture. At the end of the 1990s, James Corner contributed, along with architects Charles Waldheim and Mohsen Mostafavi, to defining and developing the concept of Landscape Urbanism as an innovative approach. Through an analysis of James Corner’s writings, this article highlights the evolution of his theory over time and examines the role it has played in the emergence of Landscape Urbanism.