Der Garten als Raum

Japanischer Pavillon auf der Biennale Junya Ishigami, Venedig, 2008

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

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

Prinzessinnengarten Berlin, 2011

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

Im Garten 2004, Foto: Heidi Specker

Upper Lawn Pavilion Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962

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

Kumagai House Hiroshi Kuno + Associates, Sapporo City, Japan, 2009

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

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

LookingWest on 30th Street on a September Evening New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Town and country must be married, and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilisation.

Ebenezer Howard

"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.

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

The Primitive Hut Marc-Antoine Laugier, 1755

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

Norwegischer Pavillion Sverre Fehn, Venedig, Italien, 1962

Dijkstraat Playground Aldo Van Eyck, Dijkstraat, Amsterdam, 1954

Charles Eames

Kenroku-en Garden Kanazawa, Japan, 1620-1840

Highline New York, 1929-34

Highline New York, 1934

Wohnraum aus einem Haus in Kairo mit erhöhten Sitznischen in den auskragenden Erkern der "Muschrabîyas"

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

Olafur Eliasson