Der Garten als Raum

Kings Road House and Studio Rudolph Schindler, West Hollywood, California, 1921

Peach Blossom Spring, detail Qui Ying, 1494-1552

"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.

Im Garten 2004, Foto: Heidi Specker

Office Building in Shibaura Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2011

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

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

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

University of Arts & Human Sciences Lacaton & Vassal, Grenoble, Frankreich, 2001

Vorgärten in Cookham Sir Stanley Spencer, 1936

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

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

Casa Malaparte Adalberto Libera, Capri, Italien, 1938

Frey House II Albert Frey, Palm Springs, Kalifornien, 1964, Foto: Julius Shulman

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Rear Window" 1954

Looking South towards Chelsea Market New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

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

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

Seijo Town Houses Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2007

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

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

Aquino House Augusto Fernandesz Mas, Cuernavas, Morelos, Mexico, 2006

House Before House Sou Fujimoto, Tochigi, Japan, 2008

Apfelhaus Konstantin Kirsch

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

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

Looking South at 27th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

A Spring Evening, the Hudson New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

Die Gärten in der Avenida Madederos in Tacubaya Mexiko-Stadt, Foto: Jérôme Habersetzer

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

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