Formism - seriously silly

Here's a style of landscape design that I've never heard of .... Formism. Was it a flash in the pan?

"The Formist movement goes back to a French garden style of the 1600's and 1700's, and brings it forward minus its frills and flounces, and adapted to modern ways."

Really?

Now I know that Monsieur Hulot's sister had real life inspiration!

From blog: MON ONCLE: M. HULOT IS PUZZLED BY MODERNISM
More pictures there!

Perhaps the rest of the article will help:

or not!