Founder of Atelier ndf
Nicolas Deshais-Fernandez is a DPLG (former qualification for state-qualified landscape designers) landscaper and a botanist. He graduated from the Bordeaux School of Architecture and Landscape in 2012. As soon as he graduated, he assisted Freddy Charrier, a DPLG landscaper established in Bordeaux, on the Akènes project – an ecodistrict in Lormont (Gironde), before working with Gilles Clément and the Coloco collective in Paris, on landscape projects of varying scales, from urban studies to creating private gardens. In 2017, he created his own workshop to explore – often in association with other professionals – and to develop his ideas around plants and biodiversity. For the past seven years, he has worked with the Bordeaux Botanic Garden, in particular on the Bordeaux city council’s Observatoire des Friches et des Délaissés (wasteland observatory).
