To consider the works of Swiss landscape architect Günther VOGT, you need to immerse yourself in many disciplines related to land planning. This involves a necessary return to natural sciences, botany of course, but also geology, climatology, the observation of light and shade and the strata accumulated over the specific history of each location.

This key knowledge is the backbone of his projects. His control over the elements enables him to adapt them to the technological restrictions inherent to the design of contemporary spaces.

Interview by Dany Sautot.
Photos by Christian Vogt, Vogt Ag et Olaf Unverzart.

No. 390 – July/ August 2012 – released on June 29th
PAYSAGE section