Conversation with Gilles Clément

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We reach the place where we have agreed to meet and Gilles Clément greets us with a wide smile and shakes our hand affectionately. His appearance breaks all the moulds in terms of what you would expect of an international landscape design guru: black leather bomber jacket (which betrays his passion for motorbikes, on which he has travelled the world), backpack with his reading material and own writings, neatly tousled grey hair that makes him look like an absent-minded genius...