Der Garten als Raum

Dijkstraat Playground Aldo Van Eyck, Dijkstraat, Amsterdam, 1954

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

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

Luis Barragán im Innenhof der Acequia in der Alhambra Granada, Spanien, 1924

Volksgarten Café Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini

Gartenszene mit einem Pflanztisch, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacunimum Sanitatis

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

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

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

Singleton House Richard Neutra, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, 1960, Foto: Julius Shulman

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

Roof House Tezuka Architects, Kanagawa, Japan, Katsuhisa Kida, Foto: 2001

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

George Orwell

Wir erkennen, dass die Dinge selbst die Orte sind und nicht nur an einen Ort gehören.

Martin Heidegger

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

Jane Brown

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

Gärten mit Gebhardsberg Rudolf Wacker, 1935

Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora, 1948

Schloss Schönbrunn Ruine Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1987, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini

Ebelin Bucherius House Richard Neutra, Tessin, Schweiz, 1966, Foto: Martin Hesse

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

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

Kings Road House and Studio Rudolph Schindler, West Hollywood, California, 1921

Garden House Takeshi Hosaka Architects, Kanagawa, Japan, 2007

"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.

Blumen blühen den Menschen zur Freude. Ich male sie im Sommer, tragend die Freude in den Winter.

Emil Nolde

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

Heinz Liesbrock

Kumagai House Hiroshi Kuno + Associates, Sapporo City, Japan, 2009

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

An untended garden quickly becomes nature's payback Foto: Donald Dunham

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