Der Garten als Raum

The Primitive Hut Marc-Antoine Laugier, 1755

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

Aerial view of the garden and east front of Hadham Hall, nineteenth-century copy after a drawing of 1649

Rolex Learning Center Sanaa, Lausanne, Schweiz, 2009

Kenroku-en Garden Kanazawa, Japan, 1620-1840

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

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

Emil Nolde

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

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

Office Building in Shibaura Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2011

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

Uferlandschaft Rudolf Wacker, 1936

Serpentine Gallery Pavillon Peter Zumthor, London, England, 2011

Katsura Villa-Hauptgebäude 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro

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

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

Hartwell House topiary arcades and allée to the William III Column Balthasar Nebot, 1738

Die Gärten in der Avenida Madederos in Tacubaya Mexiko-Stadt, Foto: Jérôme Habersetzer

Moriyama House Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002

House in Kita-Kamakura Sanaa, Kanagawa, Japan, 2009 (nicht realisiert)

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

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

Verführung im Garten, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacuinum Sanitatis

"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.

Converted Cement Factory Ricardo Bofill, Barcelona, Spanien, 1973

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

Victoria regia House, Adelaide Botanic Garden South Australia, 1876

In the Peristyle John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

Open Architecture Yoshiaki Oyabu Architects, Osaka, Japan, 2011, Foto: Akira Itoh

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

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