Der Garten als Raum

Kenroku-en Garden Kanazawa, Japan, 1620-1840

Klostergarten in Assisi August von Pettenkofen, um 1860

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

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

U-House Toyo Ito, Tokio, Japan, 1976

The Garden of Count Johann of Nassau-Idstein, 1650-70 Johann Walter, 1653-61

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

Casa Malaparte Adalberto Libera, Capri, Italien, 1938

Looking South at 27th Street New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

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

"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.

Bibliothèque National de France Dominique Perrault, Paris, 1996

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

Pilotis in a Forest Go Hasegawa, Tokyio, Japan, 2011

Track Crossing New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

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

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

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

House Before House Sou Fujimoto, Tochigi, Japan, 2008

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

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

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

Lumiere Park Café Sanaa, Almere, Holland, 1999

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

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

Jane Brown

A Path in The Forest Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, 2011

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

Fuji Kindergarden Tezuka Architects, Tachikawa, Tokio, 2007

Peach Blossom Spring, detail Qui Ying, 1494-1552

Vorgärten in Cookham Sir Stanley Spencer, 1936

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