Der Garten als Raum

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

7000 Eichen Joseph Beuys, Documenta 7, Kassel, 1982

Verführung im Garten, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacuinum Sanitatis

Das Leben wirkt grenzenlos vielfältig raumbildend.

Peter Sloterdijk

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Courtsey of Friends of the Highline

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Goan Gavin

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Marcin Wichary

Highline Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, New York, 2009, Foto: Mandee Johnson, John Korpics

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010, Foto: Noboru Morikawa

Ken Robson's Christmas Tree New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Ailanthus Trees, 25th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Track Crossing, Snow Joel Sternfeld, New York, 2000

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

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

Kenroku-en Garden Kanazawa, Japan, 1620-1840

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

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

Unité d'habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille, Frankreich, 1952

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

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

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

Upper Lawn Pavillion Alison and Peter Smithson, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1962

Friedhof Brion Carlo Scarpa, San Vito d'Altivole, Italien, 1973, Foto: Guido Guidi

"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.