Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden

Description:

Never before has the garden fulfilled 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 untameable 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