Associé

Georges Farhat

Formation / Parcours :

2008 : Thèse de doctorat en histoire de l'art. Titre de la thèse : L’Anamorphose du territoire. Les fonctions paysagères de la perspective topographique dans l’économie seigneuriale en France (dir. A. Picon).
1997 : DEA Histoire de l'architecture moderne et contemporaine.
1994 : Architecte DPLG.

Domaines de recherche :

Histoire et historiographies des jardins et de l'architecture du paysage (16e-21e siècles).
Théorie et épistémologie du paysage.
Histoire, historiographie, théories et pratiques de la perspective.
Urbanisme, infrastructures et paysages : espaces libres et systèmes de parcs (grands ensembles, villes nouvelles, urbanisme de dalles, renaturation, trames vertes et bleues).

Enseignements:

Depuis 2021. Full Professor. John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, université de Toronto.
2010-2021. Associate professor. John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, université de Toronto.
2002-2010. Maître de conférences en VT, ENSA Versailles

Publications :

Ouvrages et direction d’ouvrages

Georges Farhat, ed. Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism, Washington D.C./Cambridge: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University/Harvard University Press, 2020. 312 p., 160 ill.
Georges Farhat (co-dir.), André Le Nôtre in Perspective. Paris/Versailles/New Haven: Hazan/Château de Versailles/Yale University Press. 2014, 34 essays, 459 p. (415 p. + 44 non-paginated folios), 450 ill.
Georges Farhat (co-dir.), André Le Nôtre en perspectives. Paris/Versailles : Hazan / Château de Versailles. 2013. 34 essays, 459 p.
Georges Farhat (dir.), Les années 1960, hic et nunc : architecture, urbanisme, paysage. Paris/Versailles: Editions Recherches/Ensav., 2010, 221 p.
Georges Farhat (dir.) André Le Nôtre: Fragments d’un paysage culturel. Institutions, arts, sciences et techniques, Sceaux: musée de l’Île-de-France, 2006, 300 p.

Contributions à des ouvrages collectifs (depuis 2019)

Georges Farhat. “That the Best Physician Is Also an Architect: Medicine and Practice in the Life and Works of Louis Savot (ca. 1579-1640),” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 81.2 (June 2022), p. 154-174.
Georges Farhat. Review of Jaap Evert Abrahamse, Metropolis in the Making: A Planning History of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age, in theJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 80-4 (Dec. 2021), p. 480-481.
Georges Farhat. “Bridging Remote Sensing and Worldviews. Urban Landscapes from a Preindustrial Perspective,” in Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism, ed. G. Farhat, Washington DC/Cambridge MA: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection/Harvard University Press, 2020, p. 1-33.
Georges Farhat. “Topographic Perspective as Constructed Optics. Landscape Design and the Grand Canal at Versailles,” in Perspective as Practice:Renaissance Cultures of Optics, ed. by S. Dupré. ‘Techne - Knowledge, Technique and Material Culture’ Series, Turnhout: Brepols. 2019, p. 429-465.

Communications (depuis 2019) :

“Multinaturalism in Landscape Design Histories”, Open Session “Landscape Inquiries: New Directions”, organized and chaired by D. Fairchild Ruggles, Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, 29 April 2022.
“Louis Savot’s (ca. 1579-1640) Galenic Perspective on the Art of Building”, Early Modern Science Working Group, Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 octobre 2021.
"That the Best Physician Is Also ~~a Philosopher~~ an Architect”, Scientiae, Early Modern Knowledge 1400-1800, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 10 juin 2021.
“Towards a Contribution of Early Modern Landscape Design to the Historiography of Perspective”, International conference Scientiae, Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800, Queen’s University, Belfast, June 12-15, 2019.
“Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Urbanism: Bridging Satellite Imagery with Worldviews”, followed by conversation with John Beardsley, Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. and 2019 OALA Michael Hough Critic. Home and Away 2019 Lecture Series Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto, March 19, 2019.

georgesfar@gmail.com