Nov 7, 2021
Catherine Mosbach is the founder of Paris-based design firm mosbach
paysagiste, which she established in 1987, as well as the magazine
Pages Paysages, which she co-founded with Marc Claramunt, Pascale
Jacotot and Vincent Tricaud. Catherine is renowned for socially and
environmentally responsible work that attests to temporality and
continuing change, referring those who interact with these
landscapes to relationships with history, culture and the
elements.
Mosbach’s many projects include the Solutre archaeological park in
Saone-et-Loire, Walk Sluice of Saint-Denis, the Botanical Garden of
Bordeaux, the other side in Quebec City, Shan Shui at the
International Horticultural Exposition in Xian, the Place de la
Republic in Paris, Walking Mediterranean Fort Saint Jean in
Marseille. Mosbach’s work reveals latencies and hidden layers in
the landscape, making the amorphous, ambiguous or slow-moving
apparent in real time. The firm’s projects are often close to a
decade in the making, with precise relationships to site
conditions, rhythms of activity and occupation and seasonal
variation.
Mosbach is the recipient of the equerre d’argent award with Kazuyo
Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for the Louvre Lens Museum Park in 2013,
and Phase Shift Park (Gateway park) in Taichung was honoured in
2014 in the Iconic Concept Award category by the German Design
Council, Munich. Catherine was named an officer of the Legion of
Honor proposed by the President of the Republic Francois Hollande
in 2016, and is a graduate of the Landscape Architecture School of
Versailles. She also instructs the course Build with Life:
Transformation and Formation: Landscape and Islamic Culture at
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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