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Every garden is an imagined paradise – a garden paradise that incorporates the personality of the individual who created it, but also the long history of horticulture. The book recounts the history of gardens from their likely origins in Mesopotamia to today; in chronological order and in sections with keywords, it introduces the most important styles as well as the people that have influenced developments in Europe. Although the famous and influential gardens often needed extensive funds for their creation, gardens are not designed for the privileged of this world. Whether it is an allotment, a landscape park, a cemetery, or a city park – small and large gardens interweave with the built landscape and are an inspiration for all of us.

Announcements is the publication of an exhibition project, that was realized in the Kunsthalle Zürich in close cooperation with the lecturers and students of the fine arts course on the occasion of the SBK's 20th anniversary. * * Many of the graduates are today artists who decisively shape the local, national and international scene. Aim of the project was to explore the question of how teaching functions, what it means for students and qualified artists, but above all to examine the relationship between the scope for development inherent in study and the art business and in particular to the representation of art in an exhibition institution. In discussion are the interfaces between process and representation, teaching and selection, the privacy of the studio and publication in an exhibition, not to mention the discourse of training and curation as intermediate spaces, experienced as temporary and also constructive fields of conflict. * * Authors: Ute Meta Bauer, Ursula Biemann, Monica Bonvicini, Katharina Jedermann, Daniel Kurjakovic, Michael Lingner, Hans Ulrich Reck, Beatrix Ruf, Christoph Schenker, Giaco Schiesser, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Andreas Spiegl, Ralph Ubl, Beatrice von Bismarck, Silke Wagner etc. * * DVD included. * * Published with Studienbereich Bildende Kunst / Departement Medien & Kunst, HGKZ and Kunsthalle Zürich. * * Awarded in the competition „The most beautiful Swiss books 2006.“

The history of European landscape design has its beginnings in the early cultures of the Mediterranean. Again and again, especially during the Renaissance, ancient parks and gardens have been imitated as archetypes. The park is still a site of design activity human beings use living material to create an artificial landscape, a paradise.This book not only recounts the history of the garden―it conjures it up before the reader’s eyes, from the Garden of Eden and the Hanging Gardens of Nebuchadnezzar to the first book on botany and the gardens of the Renaissance, from the invention of the lawnmower to the land art movement in the United States, Hängende Gärten II (Hanging Gardens II) at the Hanover Expo by the Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, and the Gazebo-Berg (Gazebo Mountain) of the Swiss artist couple Studer/van den Berg at the 2005 world’s fair in Japan. Every single "station" of this journey through gardens and time is illustrated by an entire double page, with pointedly written texts and an abundance of historical and contemporary images.