Michel Designe Paysagiste is a landscape, architecture and urban planning firm based in the heart of Paris founded by Michel Desvigne.
For fourty years, it has been working in the field, developing its approach and research, often in collaboration with public institutions, as well as with prestigious international architectural firms.
Michel Desvigne (1958) is a landscape architect internationally renowned for his rigorous and contemporary designs and for the originality and relevance of his research work. He has developed projects in more than twenty-five countries, where his work helps in highlighting the landscapes and rendering them visible, in understanding the mechanisms at work giving them form, and in acting upon these mechanisms in order to transform the landscapes and imbue them with meaning. In 2011, he received France's Grand Prize for Urbanism for his continual contribution to and reflection upon the city and larger territory. In 2014, he was awarded the European Prize for Urban Public Space for his restoration proiect of the Old-Port of Marseille.
The projects MDP has taken on range from the planning and development of gardens and public spaces to that of vaster urban and regional territories. By their very nature linked to the passing of time, these projects sometimes take decades to develop, requiring the application of inventive and collaborative long-term strategies.
