Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a French botanist who works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he specializes in plants from tropical forests.
Career and Impact
He is the modern innovator of the green wall; specifically, he invented the modern vertical hydroponics garden, which distinguishes it from its predecessors (aka the Green Wall, Botanical Brick invented by Professor Stanley Hart White at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1938).
Blanc's contemporary patents are responsible for modernizing and popularizing the garden type. Blanc describes his vertical garden as follows:
This system exemplifies Blanc's ideas as a scientist and also the 15th target of the Haute Qualité 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.
Works
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: Pershing Hall Hotel in Paris
- 2003: Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan
- 2003: French Embassy in New Delhi
- 2004: Green façade 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 GdaÃ
Âsk, Poland
- 2008: Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Australia
- 2008: Galeries Lafayette, Berlin FriedrichstraÃÂe, Germany
- 2009: The Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly, London, UK
- 2009: 360 Mall, Kuwait
- 2010: Ronald Lu & Partners, Hong Kong
- 2014: Central Park, Sydney
- 2016: Le Nouvel Towers, Kuala Lumpur
- 2018: Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
Other works
Bibliography
- 1990: Biologie d'une canopée de forêt équatoriale : rapport de Mission Radeau des cimes, octobre-novembre 1989, Petit Saut, - Guyane française, ("Biology under an equatorial forest: report of Study Radeus, OctoberâÂÂNovember 1989, French Guiana, a collective study under the direction of Francis Hallé et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry
- 2002: ÃÂtre plante àl'ombre des forêts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical forests"), ÃÂditions Nathan
- 2005: Le bonheur d'être plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), ÃÂditions Maren Sell <small>()</small>
- 2007: Folies végétales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), éditions Chêne
- 2008: Le Mur Végétal, de la nature àla ville ("The green wall in town and country"), éditions Michel Lafon
See also
Gallery
References
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