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CaixaForum MadridPatrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a botanist, working at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, 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 veritcal 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 :, 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 Qualité Environnementale ("High Quality Environment") project, although the latter gives particular stress to use of more local species, at least outdoors.
Works
Green walls1988 : First green wall, made at the Museum of Science and Industry in Paris1998 : Fondation Cartier in Paris2000 : Aquarium of Genoa, Italy2001 : Perhsing Hall Hotel in Paris2003 : Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan2003 : French Embassy in New Delhi2004 : Green façade at the Administrative building of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris2004 : 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.2005 : North face of the shopping centre in Avignon2005 : Vinet Square in Bordeaux (with Michel Desvigne)2005 : Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok2006 : Weleda, 8th arrondissement of Paris2007 : BHV Hommes shop (BHV for men), 4th arrondissement of Paris2007 : CaixaForum Madrid2008 : Arch at the roundabout at the Grand Theatre of Provence at Aix-en-Provence2008 : Galeria Przymorze, shopping centre in Gdańsk, Poland2008 : Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Australia2008 : Galeries Lafayette, Berlin Friedrichstraße, Germany2009 : Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly, London, UK 2010 : Ronald Lu & Partners, Hong KongOther works1994 : Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire
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, October–November 1989, French Guyana, a collective study under the direction of Francis Hallé et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry2002 : Être plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical forests"), Éditions Nathan2005 : Le bonheur d'être plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), Éditions Maren Sell (ISBN 2-350-04018-6)2007 : Folies végétales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), éditions Chêne2008 : Le Mur Végétal, de la nature à la ville ("The green wall in town and country"), éditions Michel Lafon
