On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Owen Hatherley Werner Blaser's son

Werner Blaser's son

His slim volume on the country’s postwar architecture was the first in a series of guidebooks on contemporary architecture under the direction of Leonardo Benevolo

and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology

Establishing a post-humous dialogue with Vassilieff six decades later

On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Owen Hatherley Werner Blaser's sonFor centuries, the garden has been regarded as a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale. From this long cultural tradition also raises a call for a new awareness of our relationship with the Earth. On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers have each described,