Text in English & German. The inhabitants of our cities have
undoubtedly come down with a gardening virus. Gardening is being
propagated as the new sex. Wherever one looks, a gardening euphoria
is in bloom. We only have to think of the riverbanks restored to
their natural state, the urban gardening and urban farming projects
springing up all over the world, the green skyscrapers (prospective
and actually built) such as, for instance, the utopian farmscrapers
of Vincent Callebout, the conversion of former high rail lines into
green recreation spaces, the meditation gardens of Piet Oudolf, and
the vertical gardens of Patrick Blanc. We dwell on the growing and
sprouting, on the sowing and harvesting, with a kind of covert
pleasure and sublimated erotic desire. These days, we feel close to
greenery, just as we feel close to our pets. We tend and nurture
the seeds and stalks, the leaves and flowers, the shrubs and
grasses, the bushes and trees, with a matchless solicitude. These
culturally coded natural phenomena also have therapeutic qualities,
because they offer us self-determination and the possibility to
share in social development. This is nothing less than the
reintegration of the first, primal nature into the context of the
conditions that have become ubiquitous today into the context of
what has, today, become 'second nature'. For some people, such as
the campaigners of 'Guerilla Gardening', these plants, wild and
domestic, provide a way of criticizing the system; others, such as
vertical planners of wall gardens like Ken Yeang, utopia-infatuated
and bitten by the green bug, presumably see themselves as an
avant-garde working in harmony with the system. All of those coming
down the garden virus, however, have in common that they see
themselves as reformers, as campaigners and as voices arguing for a
reconciliation the first and the second, ubiquitous urban, nature,
but also between the ecology and the economy. Volker Fischer was
deputy director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am
Main for over ten years. From 1994 to 2012 he has built up a new
design department at the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt. At
the same time, he taught on the history of architecture and design
at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Fischer is already
represented in Edition Axel Menges by books on Stefan Heiliger,
Richard Meier, Stefan Wewerka, the Commerzbank in Frankfurt am Main
by Norman Foster, Hall 3 of Messe Frankfurt by Nicholas Grimshaw,
on 'beauty design' as well as on the design activities of Lufthansa
and Apple.
General
| Imprint: |
Edition Axel Menges
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| Country of origin: |
Germany |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| Authors: |
Volker Fischer
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| Dimensions: |
285 x 235 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
56 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-936681-92-5 |
| Languages: |
German
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| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
3-936681-92-9 |
| Barcode: |
9783936681925 |
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