Der Garten als Raum

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

Silvertop John Lautner, Los Angeles, 1980, Foto: Julius Shulman

In the Peristyle John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

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

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

House KN' Kochi Architects Studio, Miura City, Kanagawa, Japan, 2006, Foto: Nobumitsu Watanabe

Wolseong-Dong, Gyeong Ju, 2007, Foto: Thomas Struth

Day Care Center Sanaa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 2000, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Highline New York, 1929-34

Highline New York, 1934

Upper Lawn Pavillion Alison and Peter Smithson, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1962

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

Norwegischer Pavillion Sverre Fehn, Venedig, Italien, 1962

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

Arthur 1st Baron Capel and his family Cornelius Johnson, c.1614

"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.

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

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

Fuji Kindergarden Tezuka Architects, Tachikawa, Tokio, 2007

Klostergarten in Assisi August von Pettenkofen, um 1860

Shulman House and Studio Raphael Soriano, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, 1950, Foto: Julius Shulman

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

Haus Cristo Louis Barragán, Guadalajara, 1929, Foto: Ignazio Gomez Galado

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

Fallen Billboard New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Gärten mit Gebhardsberg Rudolf Wacker, 1935

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

Le Jardin Sauvage du Palais de Tokyo Atelier Le Balto, Paris, Frankreich, 2002

Looking South towards Chelsea Market New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Verführung im Garten, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacuinum Sanitatis

Wir hätten gerne, dass Architektur den Menschen überlassen bleibt. In mir nagt der Zweifel: Bildet Architektur aus sich heraus einen totalitären Raum? Wenn man einen Raum entwirft, gestaltet man dann auch notwendigerweise das Verhalten der Menschen in diesem Raum? Ich hätte gerne, dass wir das Gegenteil tun.

Vito Acconci

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