Der Garten als Raum

Haus Gálvez, der Eingangshof Louis Barragán, Mexico City, 1955, Foto: Danièle Pauly

"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.

Serpentine Gallery Pavillon Peter Zumthor, London, England, 2011

Grape Hyacinth New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Aerial view of the garden and east front of Hadham Hall, nineteenth-century copy after a drawing of 1649

Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora, 1948

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

The Climatron Buckminster Fuller, St. Louis, 1960

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

A Peach Tree New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

In the Peristyle John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

Unité d'habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille, Frankreich, 1952

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Detail) Hieronymus Bosch, 1500

Duffield’s Lincoln Mercury Showroom Killingsworth, Brady and Smith architects, Long Beach, Los Angeles, 1963, Foto: Julius Shulman

House N Sou Fujimoto, Oita, Japan, 2008

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

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

Das große Rasenstück Albrecht Dürer, 1503

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

Le Jardin Sauvage du Palais de Tokyo Atelier Le Balto, Paris, Frankreich, 2002

Royal Painting of Jodhpur

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

Olafur Eliasson

Liebesgarten mit Schachspielern Meister E.S., um 1460

Empfangssaal eines alten Hauses in Kairo im 19. Jhdt. Vorne und hinten die leicht erhöhten Sitz-Îwâne, in der Mitte der höhere Zentralraum mit Springbrunnen und Lichtkuppel, von wo aus die Îwâne betreten werden