Der Garten als Raum

Royal Painting of Jodhpur

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

Casa de Vidrio Lina Bo Bardi, Sao Paulo, 1951

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Detail) Hieronymus Bosch, 1500

"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.

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

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

Uferlandschaft Rudolf Wacker, 1936

Die Eigenart des Waldes besteht darin, zur gleichen Zeit geschlossen und allseitig geöffnet zu sein.

André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Peach Blossom Spring, detail Qui Ying, 1494-1552

Willians House E. Stewart Williams, Palm Springs, Kalifornien, 1955, Foto: Julius Shulman

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010, Foto: Noboru Morikawa

NA House Sou Fujimoto, Tokio, Japan, 2012

A Peach Tree New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

The Highline Joel Sternfeld, New York, 2000

The indistinction of inside and outside leads to the discovery of another dimension.

Deleuze & Guattari

Playground Laurierstraat Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam, 1956

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

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

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

Looking South at 27th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Sanaa, London, England, 2009

Visitas to the statue of Cain and Able, the Bagnio and the Domed Building Peter Andreas Rysbrack, Chiswick, 1728-32

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

Looking South from 33rd Street, Fog Lifting New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Paradiesgärtlein Oberrheinischer Meister, 1410-20

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

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996, Foto: Thomas Fadrus

Denn es ist die Beweglichkeit und Unberechenbarkeit jener winziger Wirklichkeiten, die dem Menschen Freiheit verschafft und die das Neue zumindest potentiell ermöglicht.

Olafur Eliasson

Rosen Residence Craig Ellwood, West Los Angeles, 1964

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