Der Garten als Raum

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

Visitas to the statue of Cain and Able, the Bagnio and the Domed Building Peter Andreas Rysbrack, Chiswick, 1728-32

Prinzessinnengarten Berlin, 2011

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

Ring Around a Tree Tezuka Architects, Tokio, 2011

Auch der Schatten ist eine Behausung.

Gaston Bachelard

House N Sou Fujimoto, Oita, Japan, 2008

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

Beispiel einer iranischen Säulenvorhalle, Blick aus dem Thronsaal des "Pavillons der vierzig Säulen" (Tschehel Sutun) in die Palastgärten von Isfahan nach einem Stich von E. Flandin, um 1840

Kaufmann Desert House Richard Neutra, Palm Springs, Kalifornien, 1946

Fuji Kindergarden Tezuka Architects, Tachikawa, Tokio, 2007

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

House H Sou Foujimoto Architects, Tokio, Foto: 2009

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

Oxonia Illustra, Plan of the Physic Garden David Loggan, Oxford, England, 1975

The Climatron Buckminster Fuller, St. Louis, 1960

Atelier Bisque Doll UID Architects, Osaka, Japan, Foto: 2010

A view towards the Hudson New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

The Highline Joel Sternfeld, New York, 2000

Kenroku-en Garden Kanazawa, Japan, 1620-1840

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

Paris Housing Sanaa, France, 2007

Denn es ist die Beweglichkeit und Unberechenbarkeit jener winziger Wirklichkeiten, die dem Menschen Freiheit verschafft und die das Neue zumindest potentiell ermöglicht.

Olafur Eliasson

Garden & House Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2011

Playground Laurierstraat Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam, 1956

Royal Painting of Jodhpur

House in Plum Grove Kazuyo Sejima, Setagaya-Ku, Tokio, 2003, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

"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.

Grape Hyacinth New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

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

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