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Michel Desvigne is a landscape architect internationally renowned for his rigorous and contemporary work and for the originality and relevance of his research. His projects, developed in more than 30 countries, are regularly published in the international press. He works with leading architects including Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, OMA (Rem Koolhaas), Christian de Portzamparc, I. M. Pei, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers. Among Desvigne’s most well-known urban public spaces are the rue de Meaux garden (Paris), numerous public squares in the historic center of Lyon (France), a number of French TGV railway station piazzas (Valence, Avignon, Marseille, Strasbourg), the Greenwich Peninsula Millennium Park (London), and several modern art museum gardens: Parc Draï Eechelen (Luxembourg), the Sammons Park (Dallas), the St. Louis Art Museum (USA), and the New Qatar National Museum (Doha). Other significant projects include the Otemachi urban forest in (Tokyo), the Jussieu campus (Paris), and the public space of the City of Science in Esch/Alzette (Luxembourg). Desvigne has been awarded the leading role in the planning of the Paris-Saclay cluster (7,700 hectares) and Euralens (1,200 hectares), as well as the redevelopment of the old port of Marseille (winning the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2014). He received the French national Urbanism Grand Prize in 2011 and has been a member of the French National Commission for UNESCO since 2013. He is president of the French National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles. A thematic monograph, Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne, documents the key elements of his work.