Der Garten als Raum

Montjuic Garden and Pavilion FondaRIUS Architecture, Barcelona, Spanien, 2007

LookingWest on 30th Street on a September Evening New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

San Cristóbal Stables Luis Barragán, Los Clubes, Mexiko City, 1968

Grape Hyacinth New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf

Bury Court Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 1996, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Country Cork Garden Piet Oudolf, Irland, 2006, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Nantucket Garden Piet Oudolf, Massachusetts, 2007

Wisley, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 2001, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Upper Lawn Pavilion Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962

Haus Gálvez, der Eingangshof Louis Barragán, Mexico City, 1955, Foto: Danièle Pauly

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

House A Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006

Victoria regia House, Adelaide Botanic Garden South Australia, 1876

House & Garden Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011, Foto: Iwan Baan

A Railroad Artifact, 30th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Norwegischer Pavillion Sverre Fehn, Venedig, Italien, 1962

Garden House Takeshi Hosaka Architects, Kanagawa, Japan, 2007

Der Moghul-Herrscher Bâbûr bei der Anlage eines Paradiesgartens Moghulische Miniatur um 1600

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

Falling Water Frank Lloyd Wright, Allegheny Mountains, Pennsylvania, 1937

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

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

Outside my work the thing I care about is gardening, especially vegetable gardening.

George Orwell

Casa de Vidrio Lina Bo Bardi, Sao Paulo, 1951

The Climatron Buckminster Fuller, St. Louis, 1960

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

Foto: Arsi Ikäheimonen

Balthasar Nebot

A view of the Bagnio at Chiseick 1729-30

Ada und Emil Nolde im Garten Seebüll 1941

Allee

Ansicht der Hof-Gärtner Wohnung in Charlottenhof Carl Daniel Freydanck, 1847

Auf der Parkterasse Tina Blau, um 1885

Babel IIB, Arcology #9, elevation Paolo Soleri, 1969

Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen Gustav Klimt, 1906

Blick in den mit vier kreuzförmig angeordneten Îwânen besetzten Innehof der Freitagsmoschee von Isfahan nach einem Stich von P. Coste, 1867

Burford Priory Oxon, England

Christ leads his faithful bride into the new garden of the church. Engraving from I. David, Paradisus sponsi et ponsae 1618

Collecting nature as a luxery and curiosity. The menagerie at Versailles, filled with rare birds Paris, Frankreich, 17. Jhdt.

Courtyard of a House in Delft Pieter Hooch, 1658

Der alte Begrebnisplatz der Stanbrook Abbey Worcester, England

Der Lustgarten im Rosenroman, aus einer flämischen Handschrift

Der Park Gustav Klimt, 1910

Einblick in Hof und Loggia des Kritleya-Hauses in Kairo

Emil Nolde Mohn und Lupinen, 1946

Frontispiece to William Style's translation of J. M. Dilherr, Contemplations, Sighes and Groans of a Christian 1640

Fuchsschwänzte Emil Nolde, 1939

Gartenhof im Brunnenbecken und Estrade in einem aleppischen Haus

Gemüsegarten der Abbey of Regina Laudis Connecticut, USA

Hartwell House, North west aera of the gardens with two bastions and men scything Balthasar Nebot, 1738

Haus Seebül mit Garten

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland Nicholas Hilliard, 1590-95

Hortorum Formae, Doric garden Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1583

House with Gardens Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Yokohama,Tokio, Foto: 2007

Im Sonnenschein Johann Viktor Krämer, 1897

Katusra Villa, Steinweg Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)

Le Chateau de Villandry Gardens 14. Jhd., Villandry, Frankreich

Lesendes Mädchen im Manghof in Weißenkirchen Liesl Kinzel, 1913

Madonna in Blumenhag Umkreis Martin Schongauers, um 1475-85

Maharaja Abhai Singh Watching a Dance Performance by Dalchand Jodhpur, ca. 1725

Mädchen im Hausgarten Josef Hasslwander, um 1830

Obstgarten aus der Bibel des König Wenzel, 1390-1400

Old Corney House, Chiswick, Middlesex, and its gardens 1670s

Paradisiacal Garden Fresco from the Villa di Livia at Prima Porta, detail, c. 20 v. Chr.

Partheneia Sacra, embemtic garden of the Virgin Mary Henry Hawkins, 1633

Ryōan-ji Tempel Kyoto, Japan, 1450

Salle du Conseil, Versailles Étienne Allegrain, 1688

Sonniger Garten (Znaim) Theodor von Hörmann, um 1893

The Botanic Gardenn of Padova Antonio Ceni, 1545

The botanical garden of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, Sweden Uppsala, Schweden, 1770

The Decameron. Tales in the garden, a paradise on earth John William Waterhous, 1916

The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch, 1500

The Garden's Labyrinth Thomas Hill, 1577

The House and Gardens of Llanerch, Denbighshire, as laid out by Mutton Davies between 1658 an 1662 Artist unknown

Titelpage of The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton. Democritus of Abdera seekig the shade of the greenwood tree outside a formal garden Christof le Blon, 1628

Two Elizabethan knots (Detail from Hovenden's map of All Souls) 1586-1605

Unknown Young Man with a Garden View Isaac Oliver, 1590-95

Vertumnus und Pomona David Teniers d. Ä., 1638

View of the major garden at Hadham Hall Hertfordshire, 1560s

Vue perspective du château et des jardins de Versailles Pierre Patel, 1668

Wohnhof der marinidischen Sahridsch-Madrasa Fes, 14. Jhdt.

Die Geigerin. Blau-Blumen Karl Mediz, 1893

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

Jane Brown

Track Crossing New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

"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.

Zollverein School of Management and Design Sanaa, Essen, Deutschland, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

A Path in The Forest Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, 2011

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