the designer
Pierre Rambach was born in Paris in
1925. He graduated from the Paris Fine Arts School (DPLG) Department of
Architecture. He furthered his studies in Switzerland, India and Japan where he
followed Masuda Tomoya’s school of architecture at Kyôto University.
In 1968 he moved to Switzerland
where, for many years, he was architect at the Swissair Company. In Switzerland
Rambach created numerous Japanese-style gardens including the garden of the
Oriental Arts Museum in Geneva in 2004.
Pierre Rambach has authored and translated
numerous books on Japanese traditional arts with a special focus on
architecture and gardens.
In 1973, he published the French
translation of the Sakutei-ki, the oldest Japanese book on gardening written on
1070. The Secret Book on Japanese Gardens (Le Livre Secret des Jardins
Japonais) was the first book illustrating the principles of Japanese gardening
and stone composition in relation to other traditional arts such as ceramics,
calligraphy, painting, etc.
Pierre and Susanne Rambach are
authors of "Garden of Longevity in China and Japan", published in
1987 by Skira- Rizzoli, New-York. In 2005 they also published an interactive
CDRom about the role of stones in Japanese Gardens. Website: www.around-sakuteiki.net.
In 2005, Pierre Rambach started work
on the Yerevan Lovers’ Park Landscaping and Design
Project. Since then, he has visited Armenia numerous times to explore Armenian
landscapes and find the best solutions to enable the combination of rigorous
Japanese landscaping principles with the spirit of Armenia to create the first
and as yet the only Japanese garden in Armenia.