Le Roy, Louis G.
“Louis G. Le Roy (1924) has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow in the north of the Netherlands. On a three-hectares terrain he has stacked up paving stones, paving bricks, kerbstones and other such rubble with his bare hands, while allowing nature to go its own way. Le Roy has named this fascinating jungle with its huge stacked structures, the Ecocathedral.
This book focuses on two features that are crucial in his work: time and space. The way that Le Roy deals with these notions is in sharp contrast with the often over-hasty, efficient and function-based approach to green space and nature in industrialised countries. He advocates sites in urban areas where plants, animals and people will once more be given unlimited space and time. The work on the Ecocathedral initiated by him will therefore be continued by other people until the year 3000.
Le Roy's ideas behind this project make a vital contribution to the present debate in architecture, urban design and environmental planning: the importance of the time factor in environmental processes and in work with complex, dynamic systems and networks. The book will also be an inspiration for anyone interested in ecology, nature, gardens and art.”
A documentation in text and image of Le Roy’s Ecocathedral and the holistic vision behind it, compiled by Esther Boukema (also design) and Philippe Vélez McIntyre (also photography), with 3 essays by Piet Vollard, Hagen Rosenheinrich, and Vincent van Rossem, as well as many quotations from Le Roy himself.
Text in Dutch and English.
Soft cover, 33 x 24 cm, 112 pages, Rotterdam 2002
ISBN: 90-5662-278-1
