PETER ZUMTHOR | Hortus Conclusus: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011

The scarce catalog published to accompany Zumthor's and Oudolf's 2011 Serpentine Pavilion. Peter Zumthor provided visitors with a hortus conclusus - a "secret garden" - designed by Piet Oudolf. The book documents the pavilion with plans, a comprehensive set of color photographs, and a fully illustrated index of the plants used. Texts by Peter Zumthor and Alexander Kluge. Obi band has minimal wear. Pages and boards are clean, crisp, and like-new. Fine condition. “A garden is the most intimate landscape ensemble I know of. It is close to us. There we cultivate the plants we need. A garden requires care and protection. And so we encircle it, we defend it and fend for it. We give it shelter. The garden turns into a place. Enclosed gardens fascinate me. A forerunner of this fascination is my love of the fenced vegetable gardens on farms in the Alps, where farmers’ wives often planted flowers as well. I love the image of these small rectangles cut out of vast alpine meadows, the fence keepin