Jacqueline Osty

Landscape Architect · Atelier Jacqueline Osty & Associates (AJOA)

A graduate of the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, landscape architect Jacqueline Osty established her agency in Paris in 1985, which became Atelier Jacqueline Osty & Associates (AJOA) in 2006. She taught at the National School of Nature and Landscape in Blois from 2004 to 2019. Jacqueline Osty is recognized for her work where heritage, urban, and environmental concerns are fully integrated into project design. She has developed a highly contextual and sensitive approach to sites, constantly moving between different territorial scales. She places extreme importance on anchoring projects in their locations and seeks the best match between a place and its components. Her method of operating closely with the territory, aiming to preserve its attractiveness and enhance all its identity-related, landscape, architectural, and environmental heritage, is characteristic of her work. With Atelier AJOA, Jacqueline Osty works on projects of extremely varied nature and scale: urban parks, public spaces, and vast urban sector projects. Among her numerous references, her work is notably illustrated by Saint-Pierre Park in Amiens, Bonne Park in Grenoble, the Paris Zoological Park, and Martin Luther King Park, the latest large park in Paris, a true nature haven in the Clichy Batignolles neighborhood, Paris 18th arrondissement. Her public space and promenade projects are also exemplified by Feydeau-Commerce Square in Nantes, the promenades of Reims, Bellecour Square, Jacobins Square, Bachut Space in Lyon, the boulevards of Chartres' historic center, and the seafront of Les Sables d'Olonne. In urban planning, the studio designs the Flaubert eco-district in Rouen and is currently working on the urban project of Ile de Nantes and the grand canal park along the canals in Toulouse. For this diversity of achievements, Jacqueline Osty has been awarded the Urban Planning Prize, Parks and Gardens category in 1994, and the National Landscape Grand Prize in 2005 for Saint-Pierre Park in Amiens and in 2018 for the Seine riverbank developments in Rouen (Presqu'ile Rollet). She also received the Grand Silver Medal from the Architecture Academy Foundation on June 22, 2004. She received the National Eco-district Prize for Bonne Park in 2009 and the Landscape Victory Prize in 2012 for Clichy-Batignolles Park in Paris. Finally, she received the Grand Prize for Urban Planning in 2020.

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