Der Garten als Raum

Central Park Andrew Jackson Downing, New York City, 1873

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

Gärten mit Gebhardsberg Rudolf Wacker, 1935

Römische Bäder und Gärtnerhaus Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Potsdam, 1826

Botanical Gardens of Barcelona Carlos Ferrater, Barcelona, Spanien, 1999, + 2005, Foto: Pedro Kok

Tudor badges in a hortus conclusus of the Tudor dynasty 1516

House & Garden Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011, Foto: Iwan Baan

Moriyama House Ruye Nishizawa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Moriyama House Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002, Foto: Walter Niedermayr

Verführung im Garten, aus Martinus Opifex, Tacuinum Sanitatis

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

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

Jardines Yu-Xi Sanaa, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008

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

Tapisserie Dame mit dem Einhorn 1480-1500

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

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

Rosen Residence Craig Ellwood, West Los Angeles, 1964

Roof House Tezuka Architects, Kanagawa, Japan, Katsuhisa Kida, Foto: 2001

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

George Orwell

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

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

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

"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.