Garden

A gallery-size garden's intensity and constructedness: an arcane reflection by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects

The garden, a recurring motif in the work of Zurich-based Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects, features prominently in many of their architectural projects as idea, vision, or built space. In their exhibition Garten at Architektur Galerie Berlin in fall 2016, the architects foregrounded that topos and, in collaboration with Swiss landscape designer Daniel Ganz, transformed the gallery space into a living garden.

The eponymous booklet features this temporary installation and offers an insight into its making in striking photographs by Jan Bitter and Roland Bernath. Essays by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin and Stephen Bates and a conversation with the architects by Martin Steinmann explore the meaning of the garden in a selection of their projects also from a historical and theoretical perspective.

• Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects are one of Switzerland's most highly recognized contemporary firms

• Explores their interest in the garden as a topos and its meaning for their work

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Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects were founded in Zurich in 2005 by Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin. The firm's broad scope of work encompasses design and realization of building projects, urban planning, exhibitions and publications. In 2017-18, Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin are teaching as visiting professors at ETH Zurich's School of Architecture.