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Landscape Architecture functionalist Jean-Claes Canneel

Canneel Jean-Claes (1909-1989)

know the work of Jean Canneel-Claes, Belgian landscape architect, is essential due to strong place it occupies in the emergence of the modern movement landscaping. It is an intellectual who identifies with contemporary ideas being put into practice the functionalism in landscape architecture. Imbert Dorothe positions it as "an important figure in the confluence of art, architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century as it opens new avenues for understanding the relationship of modernity to the gardens, nature, and the city. "

Canneel had a unique voice in the Belgian landscape architecture was echoed in the opinion of Christopher Tunnard in England. After the first International Congress of Landscape Architects, held in Paris in 1937, drawn with Christopher Tunnard, a manifesto for the landscape design that examined the role of landscape modern and promoted the cause of the modern landscape across Europe to the twentieth century. The proclamation was called A Manifesto for Landscape Modernity, ( A Manifesto for Landscape Modernity ). The manifesto AIAJM called the exchange of ideas among garden designers of all nationalities and their collaboration with architects, planners and artists. The letters correspond to the Association Internationale des Architectes Modernist Jardins, who founded following the conference. The World War II prevented realize the ideals of the association of the developed countries. However ambition to position the Canneel profession of landscape architecture in the world of contemporary design was reflected in the founding of the International Federation Landscape Architects (IFLA) after a decade.

was the first landscape architect to graduate from the School of Decorative Arts de La Cambre in 1931, where he also studied urban planning and architecture. La Cambre (Belgium was the equivalent of the Bauhaus). Since its inception raised and actively promotes the connection between home, garden, and the city. Throughout the 1930's was honing his point of view of a modern garden, democratic and productive while working with the architects of the movement Luis de Koninck Belgian and Huib Hoste. Through his theoretical positions and innovative designs intended to level the emerging profession of landscape architecture with architecture and urbanism. At the same time demonstrates its potential to meet the needs of modern society.

expanded his formal language for gardens with its proposed public landscape in the exhibition Water 1939 in Liège. During the German occupation, he joined the planning section of the Agency for the Restoration of the Nation, where he helped rebuild the cities. He applied his theory of functional garden the reconstruction of postwar designs of cemeteries, sports fields and city squares. He emigrated to the Belgian Congo in 1950, for some years, for work as a planner.

Extremely dedicated to connecting the garden design to architecture, was commissioned to design his own house, in Auderghem (1931), to Le Corbusier and collaborated with leading architects of the modern, like the Belgians, Louis Herman De Koninck, defining a final design , Huib Hoste and Victor Bourgeois.

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The house was conceptualized to reach out the south, facing garden "functionalist" of Canneel. The result of this cooperation between these prestigious architects Canneel and is a work visually and functionally balanced. interior volumes defined by a visual and spatial composition implicitly guarantees the enjoyment of "outdoor rooms" that allow sun exposure, leisure, and exercise. In the 30's Canneel proposed paving system with modular components, a sandbox, a wading pool, flower and vegetable beds, fruit trees, lawn sunbathing and adjusted to customer requirements and site characteristics. These concepts are also proposed and implemented by Thus the van de Putte (1932), Danhier (1933), Fouarge (1935), and Heeremans (1937), whose gardens reflect the contemporary aesthetic. Met the requirements of "modern life" with minimal cost and low maintenance, and expressed concern about the views, topography, and vegetation. Seeing the garden as part of a larger design environment, Canneel expanded the scale of their operations to urban green areas and planning cities.

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In the book "In Between Garden and City", Imbert Dorothe explores the career of the Belgian landscape architect. examines the social and aesthetic and theoretical influences that shaped Canneel work. One of the great pioneers of the landscape modern leaves a lasting legacy in the history of the discipline.

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