Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a French botanist who works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research,Ping Magazine: Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture , 8 December 2006 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 Gdańsk, Polandhttp://www.galeriaprzymorze.eu/?site=greenwall (Polish) 2008: Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Australia 2008: Galeries Lafayette, Berlin Friedrichstraße, Germany 2009: The Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly, London, UK (viewed 17 August 2011) 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, Busanhttps://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/node/14152 (Polish)
Other works 1994: 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 Guiana, a collective study under the direction of Francis Hallé et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry 2002: Être plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical forests"), Éditions Nathan 2005: Le bonheur d'être plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), Éditions Maren Sell () 2007: Folies végétales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), éditions Chêne 2008: Le Mur Végétal, de la nature à la ville ("The green wall in town and country"), éditions Michel Lafon
See also Green roof Urban agriculture List of gardening topics Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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External links
Patrick Blanc's homepage InFrame.tv video interview with Patrick Blanc which includes footage of the construction of his vertical garden in Melbourne, Australia 'All His Rooms Are Living Rooms', New York Times, 3 May 2007 Interview with Patrick Blanc by Ping magazine.