Henri Bava / TER

Awarded the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme 2018 and winner of the Los Angeles Architecture Award, the landscape architecture and urban design practice TER was founded in 1986 by Henri Bava, Michel Hössler and Olivier Philippe.

Now based in Paris, Shanghai, Karlsruhe, Barcelona and Detroit, the practice approaches the making of cities and territories through the lens of landscape, adopting a collective methodology aimed at enhancing “living soils”.

In the places designed by the practice, public space is central, exploring new sensory and collective experiences and allowing civic life to unfold freely. The practice works on the repair of soils weakened by centuries of urbanisation, fostering the proliferation of vegetation and restoring the vital diversity of plant and animal habitats. From roots to treetops, every scale of the project helps to cool the city, decarbonise the atmosphere and enable ecosystems to breathe.

Henri Bava will present the DNA of the practice through its emblematic projects around the world, including ongoing schemes at Place Sainctelette in Brussels, as well as projects in the United States, China, Morocco and Switzerland, and, of course, numerous developments in France—each more enchanting than the last—among them the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Village.

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