chiara santini
I am Full Professor of History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes at École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage in Versailles (ENSP). My research focuses on the design of gardens and public promenades in France and Italy between the 17th and 19th centuries.
After a specialization degree in "Methods of Geographical Research on Landscape and Territory" (University of Florence, Italy) and a Archivist-Paleographer diploma (Ministry of Culture, Italy), in 2004 I obtained a PHD grant in History and Civilizations of Europe at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales at Paris (EHESS) and University of Bologna (Italy). I had a research fellowship in History at École normale supérieure (ENS Ulm, Paris, 2002); postdoctoral fellowship at University of Bologna (2005-2007), EHESS Paris (2005), ENSP Versailles (2007-2008) end I was Research Assistant (2008-2011) and Associate Professor (2011- august 2020) at ENSP Versailles.
Address: École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles
Le Potager du Roi
10, rue du Maréchal Joffre
78000 Versailles
France
After a specialization degree in "Methods of Geographical Research on Landscape and Territory" (University of Florence, Italy) and a Archivist-Paleographer diploma (Ministry of Culture, Italy), in 2004 I obtained a PHD grant in History and Civilizations of Europe at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales at Paris (EHESS) and University of Bologna (Italy). I had a research fellowship in History at École normale supérieure (ENS Ulm, Paris, 2002); postdoctoral fellowship at University of Bologna (2005-2007), EHESS Paris (2005), ENSP Versailles (2007-2008) end I was Research Assistant (2008-2011) and Associate Professor (2011- august 2020) at ENSP Versailles.
Address: École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles
Le Potager du Roi
10, rue du Maréchal Joffre
78000 Versailles
France
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En dépit de ces multiples compétences, toutefois, les documents d’archives montrent qu’Alphand s’est toujours prévalu d’un seul titre, celui d’« ingénieur des ponts et chaussées ». Cette attribution est manifestement la seule, à ses yeux, qui correspond à sa formation, à sa méthodologie de travail, et à sa vision de la fonction publique. Dans ce cadre, il est également intéressant de remarquer qu’il n’a jamais revendiqué non plus une spécialisation quelconque en matière de composition de jardins et d’horticulture. Du point de vue des projets, en effet, les seuls documents autographes qu’à l’état actuel nous lui connaissons sont des plans techniques d’infrastructures relevant de son activité au département de la Gironde (avant 1855), ou alors des documents soumis à sa validation, mais élaborés par ses collaborateurs.
À la lumière de ce constat, quel a été, véritablement, l’apport d’Alphand au réseau des « espaces verdoyants », comme les appelle le préfet Haussmann ? Quelle démarche de projet, et quelle méthodologie de travail ont caractérisé sa direction ? Pour apporter des éléments de réponse à ces questions, cette contribution se concentre sur l’organisation du service municipal des Promenades et Plantations à partir de l’analyse d’un corpus documentaire original, issu des Archives de Paris et des Archives Nationales de France.
This contribution offers to analyse the reasoning and the stakes of the landscape appraisal in its relationship with historical gardens. It consists in showing that this appraisal can be a tool at the service of the promotion of a place. By taking the Tuileries Garden in Paris as case study, we shall point out how the landscape project permits the historical identity of a given place to be preserved as well as adapting it to the modern-day demands. The important historical, identity, and symbolic heritage of this garden turns it into a privileged analysing field at the moment of judging the heritage value of a site. Moreover, the Tuileries Garden has been the object of an ambitious renovation project at the end of the 20th century, led by landscapers Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech. We will have a critical reading of this project, and we will highlight the economic ans environmental issues which it fulfilled.
The variety and the treatment of vegetables and plants are an element of a paramount importance in order to understand the classical gardens project. The flowers and the shrubs - often very rare and coming from various latitudes - used to ornate the grounds, flowerbeds and paths by embellishing the chromatic and formal palette of the compositions. This article introduces the first results of a study which has been only seldom tackled by scientific researches: the material handling of the plants aimed at decorating the royal gardens at the time of Louis XIV. The shrubs (especially the orange trees) were in fact one of the major elements for decorating these gardens. Thus, they initiated the development of specific professional skills, among the gardeners community, along with the implementation of a particularly expensive trading network; a ramified network for their spotting and their transportation to the royal plant nurseries of Ile-de-France.
Lucio Gambi has held an essential place in the last century Italian Geography. Major intellectual personality, he aimed to develop a productive criticism of sense and contents of Geography, its role inside the University, its capacity to take part to the Italian and European cultural debate and to overcome the distinction between science and society. In this process of epistemological renewal of the discipline, the concept of landscape has always been defined as a unification element, understanding key of the geographer's faire, savoir-faire and acting. This article aims to highlight the intellectual approach of Lucio Gambi, through which he has addressed the criticism of the concept «human landscape» and to analyze his positions related to the debate on opportunities of multidisciplinarity in this context.
Based on new researches recently developed in the history of gardens, relating to the gardener's knowledge and savoir-faire at the Modern period, this article presents the first results of a research about the profession of gardener in France at the 17th century. The analysis is based on a corpus of twenty texts on horticulture and gardening published during the 17th and 18th centuries by gardeners, flowers collectors, agronomists and amateurs à i.e. authors who belong to a milieu less erudite than the milieu who elaborated the following Treaties: Boyceau de la Barauderie and de Dezallier d'Argenville. The article attempts to draw the reception and the participation of the representatives of the profession in the definition of the «art of garden» and the theories related to it.
Talks by chiara santini
Le colloque, qui a eu lieu à l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris, du 27 au 29 novembre 2017, a été organisé par Michel Audouy, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Yann Nussaume et Chiara Santini avec le soutien de la Ville de Paris, de la Fédération Française du Paysage (FFP), du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, du CNRS, du Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage (LAREP) de l’École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles-Marseille (ENSP) et du Laboratoire de recherche Architecture, Milieu, Paysage (AMP) UMR LAVUE CNRS/MCC de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris La Villette.
Books by chiara santini
Atti del convegno internazionale "Giardini Storici Esperienze, ricerca, prospettive a 40 anni dalle Carte di Firenze", (Università di Firenze, 25-26 novembre 2021), 2 vol., a cura di Susanna Caccia Gherardini, Maria Adriana Giusti, Chiara Santini, Restauro Archeologico, Special Issue, 1-2, 2021.
L'integralità dei contributi è accessibile online:
https://issuu.com/dida-unifi/docs/ra_special_issue_giardini_storici_1_2021
https://issuu.com/dida-unifi/docs/ra_special_issue_giardini_storici_2_2021
En dépit de ces multiples compétences, toutefois, les documents d’archives montrent qu’Alphand s’est toujours prévalu d’un seul titre, celui d’« ingénieur des ponts et chaussées ». Cette attribution est manifestement la seule, à ses yeux, qui correspond à sa formation, à sa méthodologie de travail, et à sa vision de la fonction publique. Dans ce cadre, il est également intéressant de remarquer qu’il n’a jamais revendiqué non plus une spécialisation quelconque en matière de composition de jardins et d’horticulture. Du point de vue des projets, en effet, les seuls documents autographes qu’à l’état actuel nous lui connaissons sont des plans techniques d’infrastructures relevant de son activité au département de la Gironde (avant 1855), ou alors des documents soumis à sa validation, mais élaborés par ses collaborateurs.
À la lumière de ce constat, quel a été, véritablement, l’apport d’Alphand au réseau des « espaces verdoyants », comme les appelle le préfet Haussmann ? Quelle démarche de projet, et quelle méthodologie de travail ont caractérisé sa direction ? Pour apporter des éléments de réponse à ces questions, cette contribution se concentre sur l’organisation du service municipal des Promenades et Plantations à partir de l’analyse d’un corpus documentaire original, issu des Archives de Paris et des Archives Nationales de France.
This contribution offers to analyse the reasoning and the stakes of the landscape appraisal in its relationship with historical gardens. It consists in showing that this appraisal can be a tool at the service of the promotion of a place. By taking the Tuileries Garden in Paris as case study, we shall point out how the landscape project permits the historical identity of a given place to be preserved as well as adapting it to the modern-day demands. The important historical, identity, and symbolic heritage of this garden turns it into a privileged analysing field at the moment of judging the heritage value of a site. Moreover, the Tuileries Garden has been the object of an ambitious renovation project at the end of the 20th century, led by landscapers Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech. We will have a critical reading of this project, and we will highlight the economic ans environmental issues which it fulfilled.
The variety and the treatment of vegetables and plants are an element of a paramount importance in order to understand the classical gardens project. The flowers and the shrubs - often very rare and coming from various latitudes - used to ornate the grounds, flowerbeds and paths by embellishing the chromatic and formal palette of the compositions. This article introduces the first results of a study which has been only seldom tackled by scientific researches: the material handling of the plants aimed at decorating the royal gardens at the time of Louis XIV. The shrubs (especially the orange trees) were in fact one of the major elements for decorating these gardens. Thus, they initiated the development of specific professional skills, among the gardeners community, along with the implementation of a particularly expensive trading network; a ramified network for their spotting and their transportation to the royal plant nurseries of Ile-de-France.
Lucio Gambi has held an essential place in the last century Italian Geography. Major intellectual personality, he aimed to develop a productive criticism of sense and contents of Geography, its role inside the University, its capacity to take part to the Italian and European cultural debate and to overcome the distinction between science and society. In this process of epistemological renewal of the discipline, the concept of landscape has always been defined as a unification element, understanding key of the geographer's faire, savoir-faire and acting. This article aims to highlight the intellectual approach of Lucio Gambi, through which he has addressed the criticism of the concept «human landscape» and to analyze his positions related to the debate on opportunities of multidisciplinarity in this context.
Based on new researches recently developed in the history of gardens, relating to the gardener's knowledge and savoir-faire at the Modern period, this article presents the first results of a research about the profession of gardener in France at the 17th century. The analysis is based on a corpus of twenty texts on horticulture and gardening published during the 17th and 18th centuries by gardeners, flowers collectors, agronomists and amateurs à i.e. authors who belong to a milieu less erudite than the milieu who elaborated the following Treaties: Boyceau de la Barauderie and de Dezallier d'Argenville. The article attempts to draw the reception and the participation of the representatives of the profession in the definition of the «art of garden» and the theories related to it.
Le colloque, qui a eu lieu à l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris, du 27 au 29 novembre 2017, a été organisé par Michel Audouy, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Yann Nussaume et Chiara Santini avec le soutien de la Ville de Paris, de la Fédération Française du Paysage (FFP), du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, du CNRS, du Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage (LAREP) de l’École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles-Marseille (ENSP) et du Laboratoire de recherche Architecture, Milieu, Paysage (AMP) UMR LAVUE CNRS/MCC de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris La Villette.
Atti del convegno internazionale "Giardini Storici Esperienze, ricerca, prospettive a 40 anni dalle Carte di Firenze", (Università di Firenze, 25-26 novembre 2021), 2 vol., a cura di Susanna Caccia Gherardini, Maria Adriana Giusti, Chiara Santini, Restauro Archeologico, Special Issue, 1-2, 2021.
L'integralità dei contributi è accessibile online:
https://issuu.com/dida-unifi/docs/ra_special_issue_giardini_storici_1_2021
https://issuu.com/dida-unifi/docs/ra_special_issue_giardini_storici_2_2021