Humour, Please

Claude Cormier is a Canadian landscape architect who intervenes in cities with a precise intent: to create beauty

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Claude Cormier is a Canadian landscape architect who intervenes in cities with a precise intent: to create beauty

A notion of landscape far from the romantic idea of nature, the awareness that every intervention of landscape architecture, even in its most naturalistic expressions, makes nature an artifice: this awareness of Claude Cormier, landscape architect and urban designer, is certainly attributable to his childhood spent on a farm in Quebec, in Princeville, in constant and direct contact with nature.

It is therefore clear why Cormier, who studied history and theory of design at Harvard University, landscape architecture at the University of Toronto and, before that, agronomy at the University of Guelph in Canada, is ‘bored’ by the landscape as a more or less faithful reproduction of the nature that surrounds us. Instead, he always seeks new stimuli, for example by bringing historical references to projects. All without nostalgia and never as a simple copy of the past but as an express desire to create a positive environment where people can feel good. A goal to be achieved with beauty, a sense of humour and, why not, a pinch of kitsch.