Garden and Metaphor : Essays on the Essence of the Garden / Ana Kucan and Mateja Kurir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kucan, Ana, author.

Kurir, Mateja, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Built environment--Philosophy.

Built environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter, [2023]

Summary:

Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.

Selten hatte der Garten so viele Ansprüche zu erfüllen wie heute. Er ist Zufluchtsort vor dem digitalisierten Leben und agiert als Mittler zur Natur. Als vom Menschen angelegter Ort, in dem Pflanzen wachsen, ist er gleichzeitig kultiviert und unzähmbar. Während über Jahrhunderte hinweg der Ehrgeiz des Gärtners darin bestand, die Natur zu kontrollieren und zu unterwerfen, dient er heute eher als Surrogat für Wildnis, als Habitat für Tiere oder erfüllt den Traum vom Selbstversorgertum. In diesem Buch beleuchten Landschaftsarchitekt:innen, Architekt:innen, Künstler:innen und Philosoph:innen in sechs Kapiteln verschiedene Aspekte des Gartens im Anthropozän: der Garten als Ort der Nachbarschaft, Garten als Kunst, Garten als Ort des Bezauberns und der Entrücktheit. Die stimmungsvollen Fotografien von Anne Schwalbe fangen den Zauber von Gärten ein.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prolegomena. First There Was the Garden

Japanese Gardens: Photographs by Anne Schwalbe

Garden as Essence

Picture

The Garden of Life: From Birth to Death, Where Else but a Garden?

The Garden as the Experience of a Promised World

On Mistaking Garden for Nature

Taking Responsibility for Landscape

The Garden as a Spatial Idea

Garden as Future

The Garden as an Expression of Supernature

Thinking About the Future of Landscape Architecture

Garden Thinking and Garden Action

Becoming World Gardeners in the Anthropocene

The Garden's Complex Instrumentality

Winterscapes

Garden as Community

Introduction

Radica£¿ Gardens

The Community Garden as a Metaphor of Coexistence

The City as a Garden

Overgrown Plans

Gardens as Spaces of Collective Imagination

Garden as Enchantment

Need a Garden Be a Metaphor?

The Garden as a Metaphor of Contemporary Paradise

Heterotopia: The Garden as a Metaphor

The Garden as Microcosmos

The Garden as a Photographic Image in the Era of Digitalization

Summer Splendour

Garden as Art

Garden as an Open Work

The Silent Garden

Apology of a Garden

The Garden in the Knot of Meaning

The Metaphorical Life of the Garden

paradise-darkness

Fruits of the Garden

Garden as Reflection

Let Us Cultivate Our Garden

Gardengraph

Architecture and the Supplement of Nature

The Garden, Pleasure, and Epicurus

Gardens of Others

Post Scriptum

About the Authors

Dedication

Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kučan, Ana Garden and Metaphor

ISBN:

3-0356-2656-1

OCLC:

1408681848