Der Garten als Raum

A place of submission, of refuge, of sanctuary and of looking inwards for hidden treasures.

Jane Brown

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

"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.

Ebelin Bucherius House Richard Neutra, Tessin, Schweiz, 1966, Foto: Martin Hesse

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Rear Window" 1954

Border Crossing Office 15, Kersten Geers David van Severen, between Mexico and the US, 2005

Singleton House Richard Neutra, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, 1960, Foto: Julius Shulman

Haus und Paradiesgarten

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

Converted Cement Factory Ricardo Bofill, Barcelona, Spanien, 1973

Botanical Gardens of Barcelona Carlos Ferrater, Barcelona, Spanien, 1999, + 2005, Foto: Pedro Kok

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

Olafur Eliasson