The fact that the entire history of culture and technology could
represent a single, continuous expulsion of mankind from the
original, paradiese state of nature was already described
visionarilyin the Bible and predicted with all its positive and
negative consequences. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve, of
their 'Fall' and their 'Expulsion from Paradise'. Even as a
non-Christian it is worth taking a look at the
fairytale-like-mythic text of the Old Testament, although the
picture and the process completely contradict our current
scientific findings. One would almost be inclined to assume that
the idea of a primeval paradise is innate in all human beings and
that every human being with his becoming, his birth, his childhood
and his adulthood experiences something like a Genesis. He is born
innocent and helpless, wakes up, looks around, believes to be free,
gets to know his time, his surroundings, his life. The final
expulsion of every human being from life is his death. He is a
sentenced to death. Despite all religious promises, man has always
been aware of this fact, also of the fact that he has only this one
life and that he ultimately cannot count on the hope that beyond
this life there is something that could be called 'salvation', a
happy return to the Garden of Eden. As the book shows with
numerous, primarily European examples, the history of man is
therefore full of efforts to regain here and now the lost paradise,
no matter how precarious the result may be. In search of the lost
paradises: a somewhat unusual history of man in his relationship to
nature, followed by a description of the current state of landscape
planning and garden design. In the third, concluding part of the
book, the author develops new, strangely surreal and poetic
concepts of the treatment of nature, inspired by literature, film,
theatre and tourism.Hans Dieter Schaal, born in Ulm in 1943, is an
architect, landscape architect, stage designer and exhibition
designer. His works, the majority of which have been published by
the Axel MengesEdition, have meanwhile reached an audience far
beyond his in my homeland. The author lives and works in a village
near Biberach an der Riss.
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