Garden as an Open Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Prolegomena. First There Was the Garden 10
4. Japanese Gardens: Photographs by Anne Schwalbe 34
5. Garden as Essence
6. Picture 44
7. The Garden of Life: From Birth to Death, Where Else but a Garden? 45
8. The Garden as the Experience of a Promised World 51
9. On Mistaking Garden for Nature 64
10. Taking Responsibility for Landscape 70
11. The Garden as a Spatial Idea 77
12. Garden as Future
13. Picture 84
14. The Garden as an Expression of Supernature 85
15. Thinking About the Future of Landscape Architecture 92
16. Garden Thinking and Garden Action 95
17. Becoming World Gardeners in the Anthropocene 101
18. The Garden’s Complex Instrumentality 105
19. Winterscapes 118
20. Garden as Community
21. Introduction 130
22. Radicant Gardens 131
23. The Community Garden as a Metaphor of Coexistence 136
24. The City as a Garden 143
25. Overgrown Plans 148
26. Gardens as Spaces of Collective Imagination 154
27. Garden as Enchantment
28. Picture 162
29. Need a Garden Be a Metaphor? 163
30. The Garden as a Metaphor of Contemporary Paradise 169
31. Heterotopia: The Garden as a Metaphor 175
32. The Garden as Microcosmos 182
33. The Garden as a Photographic Image in the Era of Digitalization 188
34. Summer Splendour 196
35. Garden as Art
36. Picture 206
37. Garden as an Open Work 207
38. The Silent Garden 213
39. Apology of a Garden 217
40. The Garden in the Knot of Meaning 222
41. The Metaphorical Life of the Garden 230
42. paradise-darkness 239
43. Fruits of the Garden 244
44. Garden as Reflection
45. Picture 254
46. Let Us Cultivate Our Garden 255
47. Gardengraph 261
48. Architecture and the Supplement of Nature 268
49. The Garden, Pleasure, and Epicurus 276
50. Gardens of Others 286
51. Post Scriptum 294
52. About the Authors 302
53. Dedication 312
54. Illustration Credits 314
55. Index 317