Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur ETH Zürich

"Where better and more directly can we practice a careful approach to the world than in its microcosm, the garden?" This thought runs like a red thread through the anthology by Dieter Kienast.

From the very beginning, he has accompanied his practice as a landscape architect with his writing. Since intensifying his collaboration with architects and urban planners in the 1980s, his essays, comments, and statements have focused on their core subject: the landscape architectural design within the human living space, beyond the ecological dogma of an allegedly untouched self-development of nature.

For those seeking profound, lively, and thoughtful insights into fundamental questions of the designed environment, this is a classic of contemporary landscape architecture.

• Finally available again, a classic

• A collection of texts from one of the most important thinkers in contemporary landscape architecture

• With a current commentary on Kienast's work by Prof. Udo Weilacher.