Der Garten als Raum

"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.

Willians House E. Stewart Williams, Palm Springs, Kalifornien, 1955, Foto: Julius Shulman

Playground Laurierstraat Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam, 1956

Tapisserie Dame mit dem Einhorn 1480-1500

House in Kita-Kamakura Sanaa, Kanagawa, Japan, 2009 (nicht realisiert)

Luis Barragán im Innenhof der Acequia in der Alhambra Granada, Spanien, 1924

Zollverein School of Management and Design Sanaa, Essen, Deutschland, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Looking South on a May Evening (the Starrett-Lehigh Building) New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

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

Villa Noailles Robert Mallet-Stevens, Hyères, Côte d’Azur, 1929

San Cristóbal Stables Luis Barragán, Los Clubes, Mexiko City, 1968

Japanischer Pavillon auf der Biennale Junya Ishigami, Venedig, 2008

Haus Rang Richard Neutra, Königstein, Taunus, 1961

Schloss Schönbrunn Ruine Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1987, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini

Day Care Center Sanaa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 2000, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

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

Im Garten 2004, Foto: Heidi Specker

B+W House Julie Snow Architects, Minnesota, USA, 2007, Foto: Dean Kaufman

Looking South from 33rd Street, Fog Lifting New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Liebesgarten mit Schachspielern Meister E.S., um 1460

Wolseong-Dong, Gyeong Ju, 2007, Foto: Thomas Struth

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

Peter Zumthor in his studio

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

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

Seijo Town Houses Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2007

Loop, Installation im tschechischer und slovakischer Pavillon Roman Ondak, Biennale Venedig, 2009

Volksgarten Café Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini

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

Highline New York, 1929-34

Highline New York, 1934

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