Leberecht Migge et la colonie agricole évolutive « selon les principes biologiques »

Abstract

Leberecht Migge (1881-1935) is a landscape-architect, well-known for his parks and gardens and for his writings on « Social Green » and urban farming. From the 20’s on, he develops big scaled designs for urban extensions (in Berlin, Francfort and Dessau above all) and engages himself towards a self-sufficient agriculture, gradually neglecting the question of aesthetics. He proposes several projects related to an organic approach of town and garden, in connection to the recycling of urban water and waste. In his book, Die wachsende Siedlung nach biologischen Gesetzen (1932), he conceives at a metropolitan scale a system of little farms, functioning with passive energy thanks to a linear infrastructure, he called « sun-wall ». In his project « Fruchtlandschaft Berlin » (1933), he develops an « edible landscape » for the metropole of Berlin. His thoughts are singular but also unrooted in the german concept of « innen colonization » which mobilizes the different expressions of german modernity up to the Third Reich.