Yves Brunier

Yves Brunier (10 November 1962 – 2 October 1991) was a French landscape architect best known for his collage illustrations and projects done in France and Belgium.

Education Brunier was born on 10 November 1962 in Évian-les-Bains, France. He studied architecture in Grenoble, graduating in 1982, and received a diploma in landscape architecture from the Versailles-based École nationale supérieure du paysage in 1986.

Career Brunier began what Udo Weilacher described as a "meteoric career" in 1986. He worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as Rem Koolhaas' assistant, mostly on projects in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague. He initially refused to design landscapes, wishing to be an architect instead, but was persuaded by Koolhaas.

Brunier exploited the clash between culture and nature rather than seeking to create harmonious images of nature in the city. His favorite technique was collage; he created unconventional compositions by fusing fragments of different images, ideas or situations. He also used pencil and watercolor sketches. According to Koolhaas, Brunier's drawings and collages were regularly characterized by impatience and violence. Koolhaas also claimed that Brunier's approach to nature was aggressive, and attributed this to his illness. Nevertheless, Brunier paid a lot of attention to the choice of plants in his projects.

Brunier died aged 28 of an AIDS-related illness in his hometown on 2 October 1991.