Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden

The garden is a man-made place that serves as a refuge from digitalized life, a bridge to nature, and a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals, or a dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, experts from various fields explore different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 06 November 2023
Publisher: Birkhauser

Never before has the garden been able to meet so many demands as it does today. It is a haven from the digitalized world and serves as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamed at the same time. While for centuries, the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place of retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals, or it fulfills 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, the garden as art, the garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.

Weight: 1006g
Dimension: 178 x 249 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783035626551