Mannisi Alban - SEIWOOO

Profile of Mannisi Alban - SEIWOOO

Business Name

Mannisi Alban - SEIWOOO

Location

Japan

Services

Landscape architecture

Website

http://www.seiwooo.com

Mannisi Alban

Principal(s)

Mannisi Alban (1976)

Philosophy

Does the landscape need us as we need it ?

This posture simply brings us to always question the need of landscape....

... France/countryside, though equipped from so dense cities to forests without traces of human being, in furious Korea, lapse of memory of the ground of these asiatic worlds/cities....

The project of landscape is not obvious.

The need of landscape is only equalled by the variety of kilometers crossed from islands to them.

From my experience within a radiant artistic environment, escaping from everything to better provide itself with the essentials, to urban and territorial landscape developments where each element, from clouds to algae is actively involved in invested sites, the iniquity of our knowledge regarding landscape analysis clearly appeared to me. Try. It's certainly the best we can do. Essential because actively involved, we belong to a process in which we are not always orchestrators but by definition actors. We cannot climb out. At the very best we have to be responsible.

'The problem with men it that they always have good reasons' (Jean Renoir - Rule of the Game): a landscape architect is dangerous and fascinating, everything is possible to him.

He is not the artist who takes the risk to hurt the republic in a showroom full of `of course'. He imposes himself to everybody and has to assume this majestic and vulgar presumption.

The risks are important.

... then let us take time to go outside and remain there... scraping the pavement, getting the countryside tired, everything that connects us to essentials that we can't detect yet.....

Background

• Founded: 2006
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 1

Key projects

• Grand Army Plaza, New York, USA, 2008
• No Idea where it comes from, Saipan, Pacific Ocean, 2008
• Iraki Memorial Bagdad, Iraki, 2008
• Fleck park, Lannion, France
• Central Park, Chevroliere, France

Key publications

• Masstudies Book, For Strenue Tower, Work of Alban Mannisi SEIWOOO, Jannuary 2008
• International New Landscape Magazine, Work of Alban Mannisi SEIWOOO, December 2007
• International New Landscape Magazine, Work of Alban Mannisi SEIWOOO, June 2007

Key awards

• Iraki Memorial Award, USA, 2008
• Hiroshima Baseball Stadium, Second Prize with AAA, Japan, 2006
• Second Award for best landscape Architecture Diploma of France, 2004