Patrick Blanc

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Patrick Blanc

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Patrick Blanc, Centre commercial des quatre Temps, La Dfense (Puteaux),Hauts-de-Seine

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:

On a load-bearing wall or structure is placed a metal frame that supports a PVC

the system works in aclosed circuit. Plants are chosen for their ability to grow o

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

1998 : Fondation Cartier in Paris

2000 : Aquarium of Genoa, Italy

2001 : Perhsing Hall Hotel in Paris

2003 : Marith & Franois Girbaud boutique in Manhattan

2003 : French Embassy in New Delhi

2004 : Green faade at the Administrative building of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris

2004 : 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

2005 : North face of the shopping centre in Avignon

2005 : Vinet Square in Bordeaux (with Michel Desvigne)

2005 : Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok

2006 : Weleda, 8th arrondissement of Paris

2007 : BHV Hommes shop (BHV for men), 4th arrondissement of Paris

2007 : CaixaForum Madrid

2008 : Arch at the roundabout at the Grand Theatre of Provence at Aix-en-Provence

2008 : Galeria Przymorze, shopping centre in Gdask, Poland[5]

2008 : Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Australia

2008 : Galeries Lafayette, Berlin Friedrichstrae, Germany

2009 : The Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly, London, UK [6]

2010 : Ronald Lu & Partners, Hong Kong


2014: Central Park, Sydney
Other works

1994 : Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire

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)

2007 : Folies vgtales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), ditions Chne

2008 : Le Mur Vgtal, de la nature la ville ("The green wall in town and country"), ditions
Michel Lafon

See also[edit]

Green roof

Urban agriculture

List of gardening topics

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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

4.

Jump up^ "RIBA announces 12 Honorary Fellowships". architecture.com. 6 October 2009.

Retrieved 15 April 2014.

5.

Jump up^ http://www.galeriaprzymorze.eu/?site=greenwall (Polish)

6.

Jump up^ http://www.athenaeumhotel.com/pdf/The-Living-Wall-one-year-on.pdf (viewed 17

August 2011)

External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Patrick
Blanc.

Patrick Blanc's homepage

InFrame.tv video interview with Patrick Blanc which includes footage of the construction of
his vertical garden in Melbourne, Australia

'All His Rooms Are Living Rooms', New York Times, 3 May 2007

Interview with Patrick Blanc by Ping magazine.