Der Garten als Raum

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

Jane Brown

Typisches Hofdetail eines aleppinischen Hauses

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

Apfelhaus Konstantin Kirsch

Peter Zumthor in his studio

Verführung im Garten, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacuinum Sanitatis

"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.

Curtis Residence Nathaniel Curtis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, 1962, Foto: John Dominis

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

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

Maison à Lège Lacaton & Vassall, Cap Ferret, Frankreich, 1998

U-House Toyo Ito, Tokio, Japan, 1976

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

The Highline Joel Sternfeld, New York, 2000

Gardens in the area of Moorgate and Bishopsgate, a section of the so-called Copper-plate map of London 1553-59

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

Olafur Eliasson