Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden

Published by Birkhäuser 2024

Garden and Metaphor

Essays on the Essence of the Garden

Edited by: Ana Kučan and Mateja Kurir

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035626568

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About this book

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.

The importance of the garden for our present and in the future

Internationally renowned authors

A beautifully designed, attractive volume with photography by Anne Schwalbe

Author / Editor information

Dr. Ana Kucan, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Ljubljana

Dr Mateja Kurir, Philosopher, Researcher, Editor, Ljubljana

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„Die Autorenliste liest sich wie ein ‚Who’s Who‘ der Szene – es sind Expertinnen und Experten aus Landschaftsarchitektur, Architektur, Kunst und Philosophie.“ (Heike Vossen in GÄRTEN Magazin)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Prolegomena. First There Was the Garden Ana Kučan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Japanese Gardens: Photographs by Anne Schwalbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Garden as Essence
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The Garden of Life: From Birth to Death, Where Else but a Garden? Catharine Ward Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
The Garden as the Experience of a Promised World Janez Marušič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
On Mistaking Garden for Nature Pavel Gantar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Taking Responsibility for Landscape Kinga Szilágyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
The Garden as a Spatial Idea João Gomes da Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Garden as Future
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The Garden as an Expression of Supernature Saskia de Wit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Thinking About the Future of Landscape Architecture Carl Steinitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Garden Thinking and Garden Action Udo Weilacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Becoming World Gardeners in the Anthropocene Martin Prominski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Garden’s Complex Instrumentality Andrew Benjamin and Gerard Reinmuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Winterscapes Photographs by Anne Schwalbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Garden as Community
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Radicant Gardens Lisa Diedrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Community Garden as a Metaphor of Coexistence Urška Jurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
The City as a Garden Dževad Karahasan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Overgrown Plans Miloš Kosec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Gardens as Spaces of Collective Imagination Lilli Lička Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Garden as Enchantment
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Need a Garden Be a Metaphor? Marc Treib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
The Garden as a Metaphor of Contemporary Paradise Davorin Gazvoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Heterotopia: The Garden as a Metaphor Martin Rein-Cano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The Garden as Microcosmos Aleš Vodopivec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
The Garden as a Photographic Image in the Era of Digitalization Jure Mikuž Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Summer Splendour Photographs by Anne Schwalbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Garden as Art
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Garden as an Open Work Jože Barši Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The Silent Garden Miklavž Komelj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Apology of a Garden Erika Bordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
The Garden in the Knot of Meaning Nadja Zgonik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
The Metaphorical Life of the Garden Lev Kreft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
paradise-darkness Olaf Nicolai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Fruits of the Garden Photographs by Anne Schwalbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Garden as Reflection
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Let Us Cultivate Our Garden Mladen Dolar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Gardengraph Dean Komel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Architecture and the Supplement of Nature Sven-Olov Wallenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
The Garden, Pleasure, and Epicurus Mateja Kurir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Gardens of Others Photographs by Anne Schwalbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Post Scriptum Barbara Habič Pregl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Illustration Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Landscape architects, horticulturalists, ecologists
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 110
Keywords: urban wilderness; urban gardening; biodiversity; horticulture; landscape design; vegetation; hortus conclusus

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783035626568

Hardcover

Published: November 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783035626551