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Patrick Blanc
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Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a French botanist, working at the French National
Centre for Scientific Research,[1] where he specializes in plants from tropical forests. He is the
modern innovator of the green wall, yet recent scholarship on the subject suggest that the vertical
garden (aka. Green Wall, Botanical Brick) was invented by Professor Stanley Hart White at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1938. Professor White patented the first known Vertical
Garden, or "Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and System", as a treatise on modern
garden design, predating Patrick Blancs contemporary patents by nearly 50 years [2][3]Although Blanc
did not invent the vertical garden, he is responsible for modernizing and popularizing the garden
type. Blanc describes his vertical garden as follows:
This type of achievement exemplifies Blanc's ideas as an ecological engineer and also the 15th
target of the Haute Qualit Environnementale ("High Quality Environment") project, although the
latter gives particular stress to use of more local species, at least outdoors.
In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[4]
Contents
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1 Works
2 Bibliography
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Works[edit]
Green walls
1988 : green wall, made at the Museum of Science and Industry in Paris
2004 : Green faade at the Administrative building of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
2007 : BHV Hommes shop (BHV for men), 4th arrondissement of Paris
2014: Central Park, Sydney
Other works
Bibliography[edit]
1990 : Biologie d'une canope de fort quatoriale : rapport de Mission Radeau des cimes,
octobre-novembre 1989, Petit Saut, - Guyane franaise, ("Biology under an equatorial forest:
report of Study Radeus, OctoberNovember 1989, French Guyana, a collective study under the
direction of Francis Hall et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry
2002 : tre plante l'ombre des forts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical
forests"), ditions Nathan
2005 : Le bonheur d'tre plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), ditions Maren Sell
(ISBN 2-
350-04018-6)
See also[edit]
Green roof
Urban agriculture
References[edit]
1.
Jump up^ Ping Magazine: Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture, 8 December 2006
2.
Jump up^ Richard L. Hindle (2012): A vertical garden: origins of the Vegetation-Bearing
Architectonic Structure and System (1938), Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed
Landscapes: An International Quarterly, 32:2, 99-110
3.
Jump up^ Kristin Hohenadel: All His Rooms Are Living Rooms in The New York Times, 3
May 2007
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External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Patrick
Blanc.
'All His Rooms Are Living Rooms', New York Times, 3 May 2007