Der Garten als Raum

Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf

Bury Court Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 1996, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Country Cork Garden Piet Oudolf, Irland, 2006, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Nantucket Garden Piet Oudolf, Massachusetts, 2007

Wisley, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 2001, Foto: Piet Oudolf

In the Peristyle John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

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

Victoria regia House, Adelaide Botanic Garden South Australia, 1876

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Sanaa, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2004, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Casa Malaparte Adalberto Libera, Capri, Italien, 1938

House N Sou Fujimoto, Oita, Japan, 2008

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996, Foto: Thomas Fadrus

Der Moghul-Herrscher Bâbûr bei der Anlage eines Paradiesgartens Moghulische Miniatur um 1600

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

Haus Cristo Louis Barragán, Guadalajara, 1929, Foto: Ignazio Gomez Galado

Schnittblumengarten des Sakristans in der Abbaye de Notre-Dame Le Bec Hellouin, Frankreich

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

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

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

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

Villa in Hayama Sanaa, Kanagawa, Japan, 2010

"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.