Der Garten als Raum

House Before House Sou Fujimoto, Tochigi, Japan, 2008

Villa Savoye Roof Garden Le Corbusier, Poissy, Frankreich, 1928-31

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

Emilai im Burggärtlein, zu Boccaccios Teseida, aus einer französischen Handschrift

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

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

"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.

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

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

Victoria regia House, Adelaide Botanic Garden South Australia, 1876

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

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

VDL Research House Richard Neutra, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 1966, Foto: Julius Shulman

House A Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006

Park Groot Vijversburg Junya Ishigami + Associates & MAKS, Tytsjerk, Niederlande, 2012

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

Charles Eames

Hartwell House, Axial view of the canal from the south, showing Gibbs's temple at the end of the canal, the house and topiary alleys on the west side Balthasar Nebot, 1738