In gardens : profiles of contemporary European landscape architecture / Udo Weilacher ; photographs by Udo and Rita Weilacher ; [tanslation, Michael Robinson]
Introduction. Reading in gardens; Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries. A cosmogenic park landscape; Little Sparta in Stonypath. A garden as space for political experience; Garden of the AMU professional training centre in Holstebro. Symbolic readings; Interpolis Garden in Tilburg. Forest park with computer interface; District Parks in Bijlmermeer near Amsterdam. No flowers on board; Varus Battle Museum and Park in Bramsche-Kalkriese. Traces in steel; Black Garden in Nordhorn. Heroic death in the tulip field; Invalidenpark in Berlin. Reading along historic city lines
Garden of Memories in Duisburg. White memory on a green groundLandscape Park Duisburg Nord. Climbers on "Monte Thyssino"; Museum Island Hombroich. Art in an artificial Arcadia; Park of Magic Waters in Bad Oeynhausen. Tales of the water dragon; District Parks in Kronsberg, Hanover. Tree island and woodland clearing; Place du Général Leclerc in Tours. Iceberg in a sea of lilac; Place de la Bourse in Lyon. Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square; Les Jardins de l'Imaginaire in Terrasson. Fragments of garden history; Garden of Violence in Murten. The peaceful garden Utopia
Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon. Empty plinths in the box parterreFront Garden and Courtyard for the Basler + Partner Building in Zurich. An urban garden beyond ecological clichés; Oerliker Park in Zurich. A park as a promise; MFO Park in Zurich. Green fur on a steel skeleton; Garden for the Fondation Jeantet de Médicine in Geneva. A sunken hortus conclusus; Osservatorio geologico on the Cardada. Joints in panoramic view; Mountain Garden in Graz. Landscape in abstract folds; Jardí Botànic de Barcelona. Nature fragments in a geometrical network
Parc del Clot in Barcelona. A young classic with two facesTarot Garden near Garavicchio. In the garden of the fateful cards; Rock Garden in Chandigarh. Rebellion against Modernism
Summary
The past decade has witnessed new interpretations of the great themes of traditional European garden art in profusion. Drawing on his intensive studies of some 30 influential European projects, Udo Weilacher presents a panorama of the most significant developments since the publication of his groundbreaking work Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art in 1996
