Der Garten als Raum

An untended garden quickly becomes nature's payback Foto: Donald Dunham

Gärten in der Avenida Madederos in Tacubaya Mexico Stadt, 1943, Jérôme Habersetzer

Frey House II Albert Frey, Palm Springs, Kalifornien, 1964, Foto: Julius Shulman

Maison à Lège Lacaton & Vassall, Cap Ferret, Frankreich, 1998

Moriyama House Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Maharaja Jaswant Singh I at a Music Performance during a Monsoon Jodhpur, ca. 1670

Gardens in the area of Moorgate and Bishopsgate, a section of the so-called Copper-plate map of London 1553-59

A place of submission, of refuge, of sanctuary and of looking inwards for hidden treasures.

Jane Brown

B+W House Julie Snow Architects, Minnesota, USA, 2007, Foto: Dean Kaufman

Town and country must be married, and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilisation.

Ebenezer Howard

Gartenszene mit einem Pflanztisch, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacunimum Sanitatis

Looking East on 30th Street on a Morning in May New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Barcelona-Pavillon Mies van der Rohe, Barcelond, Spanien, 1929

Highline New York, 1929-34

Highline New York, 1934

Peter Zumthor in his studio

House H Sou Foujimoto Architects, Tokio, Foto: 2009

"He's gotten away from the soft pornography of the flower," said Charles Waldheim, the director of the landscape architecture program at the University of Toronto. "He's interested in the life cycle, how plant material ages over the course of the year," and how it relates to the plants around it. Like a good marriage, his compositions must work well together as its members age.