Der Garten als Raum

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

Olafur Eliasson

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

A beautiful house in a beautiful garden and a beautiful city for all.

Raymond Unwin

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

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

7000 Eichen Joseph Beuys, Documenta 7, Kassel, 1982

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

Ring Around a Tree Tezuka Architects, Tokio, 2011

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

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

Vorgärten in Cookham Sir Stanley Spencer, 1936

House in Kita-Kamakura Sanaa, Kanagawa, Japan, 2009 (nicht realisiert)

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

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

Blumengarten in Weißenkrichen Emil Jakob Schindler, 1879

Fallen Billboard New York, 2000, Foto: Joel Sternfeld

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010

Teshima Art Museum Ryue Nishizawa & and Rei Naito, Teshima Island, 2010, Foto: Noboru Morikawa

NA House Sou Fujimoto, Tokio, Japan, 2012

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

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

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

Lewin House Richard Neutra, Santa Monica, Kalifornien, 1938

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

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

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

Gärten mit Gebhardsberg Rudolf Wacker, 1935

Friedhof Brion Carlo Scarpa, San Vito d'Altivole, Italien, 1973, Foto: Guido Guidi

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.

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