lundi 08 septembre 2025

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A landscape architect, geomorphologist and urban planner, Christophe Laforge (born in 1966 in La Rochefoucauld) had been teaching at the school since 2008. After beginning his career as a civil engineer for the French government in the Somme department, he worked as a landscape architect for the Parks and Green Spaces Department of the Hauts-de-Seine department.

In 2001, he co-founded the HYL (Hannetel Yver Laforge) agency, for which he carried out regeneration projects for large housing estates, parks, public spaces and urban developments in France and across Europe; an agency he left in 2010 to found Œcoumène in Process Christophe Laforge.

In 2006, he embarked on a teaching career, first at the ENSP in Rome, Bari and Venice, then at the École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est, in the ‘territory’ department. In recent years, Christophe Laforge was responsible for the course on the history of garden art and landscape strategies.

The school, his colleagues and his former students extend their deepest condolences to his family and friends.