“ The house appears before us, surrounded by a mass of flowers, wide lawns resplendent in the richest of greens extend…beyond them, pergolas, orchards, meadows, and woods seem to stretch away into the distance. A perfect, secluded world of its own, a little paradise on Earth. Here, if anywhere, is a surviving fragment of the old, placid way of life that stands, lonely as an island, in the brief transience of the modern world.”
HERMANN MUTHESIUS, The English House, 1904-5
We aim to capture the joy of being outside. From earth-moving artists like Maya Lin to otherworldly creations at the hands of landscape professionals, this issue celebrates open-air design moves that surprise, delight, and restore us.
Though the formal garden as described by Hermann Muthesius—a leading, turn-of-the-century architectural thinker—may seem…
