Der Garten als Raum

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

Garden House Sou Fujimoto, Tochigi, Japan, 2011

Barcelona-Pavillon Mies van der Rohe, Barcelond, Spanien, 1929

Vorgärten in Cookham Sir Stanley Spencer, 1936

Norwegischer Pavillion Sverre Fehn, Venedig, Italien, 1962

Outside my work the thing I care about is gardening, especially vegetable gardening.

George Orwell

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

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

Sidney and Frances Brody pictured in their home with Matisse's La Gerbe A. Quincy Jones, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, 1966

Villa Savoye Roof Garden Le Corbusier, Poissy, Frankreich, 1928-31

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

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

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

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

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

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

House N Sou Fujimoto, Oita, Japan, 2008

Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf

Bury Court Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 1996, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Country Cork Garden Piet Oudolf, Irland, 2006, Foto: Piet Oudolf

Nantucket Garden Piet Oudolf, Massachusetts, 2007

Wisley, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Piet Oudolf, Surrey, England, 2001, Foto: Piet Oudolf

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

Okurayama Apartments Sanaa, Yokohama, Japan, 2008

VDL Research House Richard Neutra, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 1966, Foto: Julius Shulman

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

Shibaura Building Kazuyo Sejima and Associates, Tokio, Japan, 2011

Haus Rang Richard Neutra, Königstein, Taunus, 1961

Gartenszene mit einem Pflanztisch, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacunimum Sanitatis

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

"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.

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

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

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