Der Garten als Raum

EggO House A69 Architects, Prag, Tschechien, 2008

Loewy House Albert Frey, Palm Springs, Californien, Foto: 1946

We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Uferlandschaft Rudolf Wacker, 1936

Peach Blossom Spring, detail Qui Ying, 1494-1552

Was als Spannung zwischen Innen und Außen erscheint, meint im Wesentlichen die Beziehung zwischen dem Sichtbaren und dem Unsichtbaren.

Heinz Liesbrock

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

Aquino House Augusto Fernandesz Mas, Cuernavas, Morelos, Mexico, 2006

Ailanthus Trees, 25th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Rolex Learning Center Sanaa, Lausanne, Schweiz, 2009

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

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

Villa Vals SeARCH und CMA, Vals, Schweiz, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan

Tapisserie Dame mit dem Einhorn 1480-1500

Oxonia Illustra, Plan of the Physic Garden David Loggan, Oxford, England, 1975

The Primitive Hut Marc-Antoine Laugier, 1755

Aerial view of the garden and east front of Hadham Hall, nineteenth-century copy after a drawing of 1649

"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.