Der Garten als Raum

Beispiel einer iranischen Säulenvorhalle, Blick aus dem Thronsaal des "Pavillons der vierzig Säulen" (Tschehel Sutun) in die Palastgärten von Isfahan nach einem Stich von E. Flandin, um 1840

Römische Bäder und Gärtnerhaus Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Potsdam, 1826

Looking South on a May Evening (the Starrett-Lehigh Building) New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Charles Eames

The Climatron Buckminster Fuller, St. Louis, 1960

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Courtsey of Friends of the Highline

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Goan Gavin

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Marcin Wichary

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Mandee Johnson, John Korpics

A Spring Evening, the Hudson New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Botanical Gardens of Barcelona Carlos Ferrater, Barcelona, Spanien, 1999, + 2005, Foto: Pedro Kok

Border Crossing Office 15, Kersten Geers David van Severen, between Mexico and the US, 2005

"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.