The point cloud model developed by Christophe Girot and his team makes the Gotthard rail tunnel uniquely tangible and visible. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Professur Girot)
The point cloud model developed by Christophe Girot and his team makes the Gotthard rail tunnel uniquely tangible and visible. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Professur Girot) Christophe Girot brought landscape architecture into the digital world and taught a generation of architects how to think on a larger scale. After more than 20 years as an ETH Professor, he is now retiring. Nature is always culture. Christophe Girot grew up near London's Richmond Park. The woods, trails and meadows in the southwest of the city are like a second home to him. At the age of eleven, he moved with his family to Versailles - and what awaited him there could hardly have been more different: out went the tamed wilderness of English gardens, in came the absolutist austerity of the Palace Gardens of Versailles.
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