Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects, Michel Desvigne has been designing landscapes for 19 years. He initially graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles. Throughout his career and on current projects, Michel Desvigne has collaborated with the world's leading architects, including Paul Andreu, Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi... Michel Desvigne teaches and researches at the ENSP in Versailles, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Institut d'Architecture in Geneva and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2000, Michel Desvigne received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and in 2003 he was nominated for the ‘Grand prix de l'urbanisme’.
