Der Garten als Raum

Peter Zumthor in his studio

Kumagai House Hiroshi Kuno + Associates, Sapporo City, Japan, 2009

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

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

Im Garten 2004, Foto: Heidi Specker

Blumen blühen den Menschen zur Freude. Ich male sie im Sommer, tragend die Freude in den Winter.

Emil Nolde

7000 Eichen Joseph Beuys, Documenta 7, Kassel, 1982

Maharaja Jaswant Singh I at a Music Performance during a Monsoon Jodhpur, ca. 1670

The Primitive Hut Marc-Antoine Laugier, 1755

Peristyle garden with a succession of ornamental fish ponds, Pompeii Kampanien, Italien, 1. Jt. v. Chr., Annette Giesecke

Villa Vals SeARCH und CMA, Vals, Schweiz, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan

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

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

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

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

"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.