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Paris Study Abroad: Corporeal Landscapes is an international program centered around the moving body (‘corp’ is the French word for ‘body’) as a sensory navigation tool for understanding, analyzing and interpreting the city of Paris. Students must take two courses, a seminar and a studio/lab. The seminar is focused on landscape architecture and urban design in France, looking at how historic design traditions have shaped contemporary landscape practice in France today. Precedent studies on French public parks built in different eras will offer a window into French cultural and ecological values through the lens of public space. The studio investigates the physical, social and ecological dimensions of the Parisian landscape with an emphasis on its periphery and waterways. The rivers and canals that run through Paris and extend beyond the periphery are key to understanding its regional context. During this one-month intensive experience in Paris students will participate in on-site workshops, tours and seminars led by local academics and practitioners.
Facing the Luxembourg Gardens and only minutes away from Notre-Dame and the banks of the Seine, the Foyer International is ideally located for students in Paris.
Pavillon de l’Arsenal is an information, documentation, exhibition center of urbanism and architecture from Paris and the Parisian Metropole.
This old enclosed botanic garden ('garden of simples') was established by Louis XIII in 1626 and opened to the public in 1640. There are parterres, a rotunda and an amphitheatre.
A public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was eventually opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution.
The Champ de Mars is a large public greenspace, located in the 7th arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius ("Mars Field") in Rome, a tribute to the Roman god of war.
The Bassin de la Villette (La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808. Located in the 19th arrondissement of the capital, it links the Canal de l'Ourcq to the Canal Saint-Martin, and it represents one of the elements of the Réseau des Canaux Parisiens (Parisian Canal Network), a public-works authority city-operated.
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont is a public park situated in northeastern Paris in the 19th arrondissement, the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden.
Père Lachaise Cemetery formerly is the largest cemetery in Paris, France. With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world, located in the 20th arrondissement, was the 1st garden cemetery, and the 1st municipal cemetery in Paris.
Jardins d’Éole was transformed from a postindustrial brownfield site into an urban park. Conceived by multiethnic, neighborhood-based activists who sought to address social and environmental inequalities, the park was ultimately realized in 2007 because it aligned with politicians’ grand visions of redeveloping immigrant northeast Paris as a node of sustainable urban design.
THE PAVILION ON THE SEGUIN ISLAND is an original building designed and built from containers that relate to the world of river transport, which has a strong presence on the Seine. This metal and modular architecture reflects the great urban project that began on Seguin Island with the creation of the musical city being built on the downstream point.
The Chapelle-Charbon park is a green space in Paris built in several stages between 2020 and 2030 on the current site of railway tracks of the Petite Ceinture line in the 18th arrondissement. The project is part of a neighborhood redevelopment operation including social housing, a school, shops, a footbridge towards Ney Boulevard and the park itself.
The estate of Versailles consists of the palace, the subsidiary buildings around it, and its park and gardens. The estate was established by Louis XIII as a hunting retreat, with a park just to the west of his château. The landscape of the estate had to be created from the bog that surrounded Louis XIII's château using landscape architecture usually employed in fortress building.
La Défense is a major business district west of the city limits of Paris, Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises and Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall. The Axe historique ("historical axis") starts at the Louvre and continues along the Champs-Élysées, beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense.
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone quarries. Extending south from the Barrière d'Enfer ("Gate of Hell") former city gate, this ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the city's overflowing cemeteries.
GERPHAU welcomes researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (architects, urban planners, philosophers, landscapers, sociologists, ecologists, etc.). They meet around common research objects that they explore from a collaborative and creative culture that constitutes the trademark of the laboratory.
The gardens, which cover 25 hectares of land, are split into French gardens and English gardens. Between the two, lies a geometric forest and a large pond. There is also an orchard with a variety of old and forgotten apples, an apiary for you to learn about bee-keeping and greenhouses with a collection of breathtaking orchids and a rose garden.
A modern architectural symbol of the dialogue between Western culture and the Arab world, built on the banks of the Seine, the Arab World Institute was inaugurated to the public in December 1987. This building was designed and built by a team of architects, including Jean Nouvel, Architecture Studio.
Designed by Gilles Clément, the garden is an integral part of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. A place of nature and culture, the garden is an invitation to travel: trails, small hills, paths paved with torrent stone, pools conducive to meditation and daydreaming.
The Parc de la Villette, designed by Bernard Tschumi, is the third-largest park in Paris, 55.5 hectares (137 acres) in area, located at the northeastern edge of the city in the 19th arrondissement. The park houses one of the largest concentration of cultural venues in Paris.
The Parc de Belleville is located on the hill of Belleville, its 108 metres making it the highest park in Paris. At the summit of the park, an almost thirty-metre tall terrace provides a panoramic view of the city. The park was conceived by the architect François Debulois and the landscaper Paul Brichet 1988.
The Coulée verte René-Dumont or Promenade plantée (French for tree-lined walkway) or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Bois de Vincennes is the largest known public park in the city, created between 1855 and 1866 by Emperor Napoleon III, the park is next to the Château de Vincennes, a former residence of the Kings of France. It occupies ten percent of the total area of Paris, and is almost as large as the first six arrondissements in the center of the city combined.
The Bois de Boulogne, ("Boulogne woodland") is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Emperor Napoleon III to be turned into a public park in 1852 and
is the second-largest park in Paris, slightly smaller than the Bois de Vincennes.
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 and constructed in the early modern style of architecture, emphasizing three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures. The design was a collaboration among Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet.
The building of the Louis Vuitton Foundation started in 2006, an art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group LVMH and its subsidiaries. The art museum opened in October 2014. The building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry, and is adjacent to the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne of the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
The Quai de la Gironde is a quay located along the Canal Saint-Denis in the 19th arrondissement and connects the Canal de l'Ourcq north-northwest of the Bassin de la Villette. In a study by the architect, Michel Corajoud, the canal is recognized as a unifying factor in the Parisian urban area - a part of the Communauté de communes de la Plaine de France,
The Paris Sewer Museum is located in the sewers at the esplanade Habib-Bourguiba, near the pont de l'Alma, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The museum details the history of the sewers from their initial development by Hugues Aubriot in the14th century, to their modern structure, which was designed in the 19th century by the engineer Eugène Belgrand.The museum also details the role of sewer workers and methods of water treatment.
GREAT FIELD TRIPS, AMIRITE?
The Department of Landscape Architecture has a long-standing tradition of faculty-led field trips as integral learning activities for all year levels across the program. Therefore education abroad is considered an extension of these local and regional field trips, allowing for a deeper and more immersive learning experience and exposure to a culture other than one's own. Environmental design (landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning and art) encompasses a broad range of social, cultural and ecological issues that are shared by our French counterparts yet manifest themselves differently. Sometimes students admire design projects from other countries that they see online and wonder why such projects are not possible in their own city or country. Understanding the nuances of politics, policy, culture, geography, climate as well as social and environmental justice in another country and how they affect practice and urban development will help students better understand the underlying forces behind our designed environments. Education abroad expands the sources and references upon which the students, as future designers of the built environment, can draw from.