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A camera hovers above the dry grassland nature reserve. In the Art gallery Kunstraum Weikendorf, 5 km away, this natural wonder can be seen in real time on a large screen.

“Theater of War”/Battlefield. The project is intended to contribute to a heightened awareness of nature in the city. It would be the preliminary stage for a competition for the restoration and contemporary restructuring of Vienna's "Stadtpark".

With proper care, the branches of ash trees grow together. After decades, the grown hull could be harvested and launched.

Decades pass...

Vertical garden on the unfinished north tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral. A necessary symbol for Pope Francis' environmental message Laudato Si'.

The Francis Garden and the Tatlin Monument for the Third International (1920). Comparison of two supposedly unbuildable designs.

- Cultural wasteland
- Legends in space
- Artistic analysis
- Core idea

See: “On Gardening,” London, 2001.

- Cultural wasteland
- Legends in space
- Artistic analysis
- Core idea

See: “On Gardening,” London, 2001.

Objects for landscape experiences. Photo documentation in galleries.

Reconstruction of a branch, 1974.

Staging in the Salzburg studio, 1975.

The gallery becomes a base camp for a departure into reality. The drawing pencil is Arlecchino's weapon.

The Frankfurt Historical Museum celebrated the present in 1978.

“Je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.” - Erik Satie

The sensual power of ancient mythology triumphs over the Christian message in the cardinal's garden!?

AUGUST 16, 1661 - the discovery of the Golden Age, 2024. Venus, Apollo, and Hercules seduced humans for millennia into wresting gardens from nature. At the magnificent opening ceremony in Vaux-le-Vicomte, Louis XIV recognizes the garden as a medium for representing absolute power - Versailles is born! For 190 years, rulers throughout Europe celebrated the Golden Age in ultimate works of garden art. Traces remain in Chantilly, Herrenhausen, Chatsworth, Schönbrunn, Stowe... 

MAY 1851 - Queen Victoria opens the first World's Fair in London's Hyde Park in the gigantic Crystal Palace. This marks the end of the Golden Age of garden art. Powerful ideas are now represented in iron, concrete, plastic, and electricity. Venus appears in photography and film. Apollo leads to the moon and stars. Hercules cements bunkers and bridges.

Opening ceremony for the exhibition “Europe '79 - Art of the 80s,” Stuttgart, 1979. Design by Mario Terzic. 50 international galleries provide an outlook on the coming decade. 500 participants. Diverging interests prevent the group photo planned by the organizer.

Symbols of French culture float above the dance floor.

Landscape design as a remedy for cities.

“Terza Natura”
- Wilderness: Contextualize monuments to the great conquerors of the wilderness!
- Agriculture: Create botanical gardens of food plants on the roadways!
Garden art: Restore the parks along the Ringstrasse!

An invitation to the exhibition “Past - Present - Future” leads to a postcard hunt at important locations in Europe. Artists and photographers lead a tour group of wooden figures.

Meeting in front of the Dehillerin kitchenware store. "Take the cardboard frame and the sheet of stickers from your toolbox—you will find titles of surrealist images and blank labels for your own poetic creations. Take a look at the displays at Dehillerin – a surrealist paradise! Write a title on your frame and stick it to the display window in front of the subject you have found. In this way, we will create an exhibition for each other..."

Bus trip September 10 to 19, 1984. Karlsruhe - Mont Ventoux - Nice - Turin - Milan - Sabbioneta - Rome - Pienza - Karlsruhe. Thirty-seven people form a mobile sculpture - in search of lost culture. “... the travelers follow my direction. They are characters for each other and explorers for themselves. They are not acting, but living reality...”

Breakfast in the garden. The travelers camp on canvases with traces of Manet and Matisse. Music: Christiane Hossfeld, flute and rushing water.

From the program for Friday: We meet at the bunker wall: "Transfer the name of an actual theater of war into the distinctive font of the Nazi years, Tannenberg, with felt-tip pen on a sheet of gray tissue paper. Stick it to the concrete of the bunker and give the powerful reminder of the ruins a disturbing present."

To mark the opening of the new town hall, virtuoso urban compositions by great architects are on public display.

Students in the graphic design class begin to explore garden art.

In 2000, the landscape design class is created.

The only garden for art students in Austria. Gardening as a metaphor for comprehensive artistic activity beyond product thinking.

13 years of collaboration - Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna and Landscape Design Class. Students acquire gardening skills and build objects.

University of Applied Arts Vienna. Curriculum for the landscape design class.

A fan of four historic gardens. Students lead the group across today's historical-bureaucratic boundaries: the promenade begins with a view from the dome of the Salesian Church and ends with a picnic in the Schwarzenberg Garden.

Investigation of the language of this 18th-century garden (160 ha) – space, architecture, sculpture, plants, animals, water – confronted with images of 20th-century art using a custom park guide.

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Landscape Design Class, Workshop Waldviertel, Lower Austria, 2005

Equipment for visiting a “historic” garden.

After years of practical gardening and projects for “historic” gardens, we developed our strategy for clarifying the current problems of open space.

“Legend is not one of many forms, but the only form in which we can think, imagine, and relive history.” – Egon Friedell

Listed 19th-century English park and traces of a large Baroque complex in agricultural fields. The passion of rally driver and landowner Ernst Harrach becomes the basis for the renewed garden legend. A stage for automobiles with a specific relationship to the ground and landscape is created: rally, Gran Turismo, 4WD.

Movement in the landscape. Invitation to timeless gliding on the Grand Canal.

Project: Biography of Lancelot “Capability” Brown.
Art star David Hockney conveys an idea of the significance of the almost forgotten grand master of 18th-century garden art.

Preliminary study for the artistic and horticultural design of the Rosental in Carinthia.

Ruins with trellises for a grape variety that made Zakynthos famous - currants.

Visitors were offered “Bilsom” ear protection to view the garden. It blocked out both traffic noise and the sounds of Arcadia – the song of the nightingale, Pan's flute, sheep bells...

Design for the use of the Gesmolder Garden after the construction of the E30 motorway.

Commission from the Austrian National Tourist Office. Salzburg– Vienna motorway. Road of the 20th century.

Monument to a linguistic artist. During the red phase of the traffic light, pedestrians read continuous quotes from Johann Nestroy.

“Art can cultivate the land!” Tyrolean Alpine Valley, tourism industry, 70th anniversary of the European Forum Alpbach.

How to present the cement plant and its environmental policies to the public. Horticultural depiction of the performance of the DeCONOx process for flue gas cleaning.

From the project “Jardin de Prométhée”.
Theme: Time in the landscape as an experience for endurance fans.

In the summer months, “Fontana di Zeppelin” demonstrates the synthesis of the various green spaces into a single magnificent garden.

A huge construction site waits for architecture to serve as a shell for objects and actions beyond the current art market. Billboards refer to producers of sensually experienceable complexity.

Study on the development of the “Semmering Railway World Heritage Site,” built in 1848-1854 by Carl Ritter von Ghega. After decades of neglect, viaducts, architecture, and tunnel portals are sinking into the forest. Monument protection alone cannot preserve the “legibility” of this magnificent structure. Artistic landscape conservation is necessary.

Contribution to the “Vision 2029” competition in 2012, organized by the Austrian National Committee of the International Council on Industrial Heritage and the Südbahnmuseum Mürzzuschlag, Styria.

In the 1980s, Lucius Burckhardt and his wife Annemarie developed the science of walking/promenadology.

Video stations along the descent of the ski race track in the summer months. Each station confronts the hiker with existential statements by an artist and an athlete.

Pleasure garden for the Zotter chocolate factory.

Is Linz beautiful? No! Not when measured against the standards of Salzburg or Florence. But Linz is remarkablе when it integrates its industrial landscape with gardening: gardens as the guiding principle for the Lustenau district.

Styrian cultural project on the occasion of the planned World Exhibition Vienna-Budapest 1995. Long-term concept for a social sculpture. Styrian architects, together with invited international guests, are constructing their respective work and living spaces for five years (and possibly beyond).

Interpretation of Osterley Park “The Grand View” on the 250th birthday of Humphry Repton.

Concept for the horticultural development of the entire green space.

City parks are not just a field of citizen-oriented open space policy. Depictions of the winners of the 1972 Olympic Games invite visitors to reflect on the relationship between sport and nature.

“The English landscape style is arguably the only truly contribution of the English in the history of Art.” - John Sales

The first Formula 1 Grand Prix took place in May 1950 at Silverstone. To this day, the track is one of the fastest and most challenging race tracks in the world.

Elefsis, "European Capital of Culture 2023". From a letter to Elefsis Port Authority CEO, Carolampos Gargaretas: "... Your wrecks are real assets! Don't put them away! Let us develop a unique, beautiful 'landscape of ruins/wrecks'..." 

For decades, the large parterre lacked the elevated view, the Baroque vision of the garden. The castle was destroyed during the war. In 2001, the horticultural question arose: how to regain the elevated view? The Trinidad working group offered an answer: Aerostats.

View of the exhibition at the village green in Loretto with sketches of enticing new projects.

About 2000 years ago, Carnuntum was the capital of the Roman province of Upper Pannonia – approx. 10 km² / 50,000 inhabitants.
1996 Opening of the Carnuntum Archaeological Park.
2008 Competition for the general plan.

The wooden path to the ski jump presents a view over the whole of Innsbruck and the Nordkette mountain range.

Place to relax after visiting the museum, sheltered from view and noise.

Vienna's smallest vineyard inspires a project to unseal the large paved square over the way.

Raising the groundwater level on Prater Island: The quality of life for the whole of Vienna will depend on protecting animal rights and respecting their habitats. 

How absurd is the excitement about pandas in the Schönbrunn zoo – the freshly laid eggs of the jay on the "dam mound" are more important!

Alternative to the unnecessary lift system beside the church, preventing the surrounding area from being overgrown by bushes and trees. 

‘Georgenpark’ received the full approval of the church's architect, Fritz G. Mayr.

Apple = knowledge, temptation, sensual seduction, sin = theatre. 120 ancient apple varieties from the monarchy / Ringstrasse era. The apple plantation becomes a reminder of car culture.

Expanding the garden space by new plantings: hornbeam hedges inside the garden and tree plantings in the public space (Gloriettegasse). 

Vegetating the wall to the neighbouring garden (wild vine) and integrating its old trees.

Signal colour YELLOW: Plantation of dyer's chamomile for bees.

Creating a new district for 25,000 inhabitants on the site of the abandoned airfield (240 hectares). The ruderal vegetation on the runways and taxiways (not to be demolished!) forms the core of the future garden city. Important social, cultural, and economic facilities will be part of the garden city.

Recommendations to the city administration of Gdansk after a tour of the shipyard, led by officials:
Do not build on the site! Green open space is a great democratic luxury. See: Hyde Park, London, or Prater, Vienna.
No Solidarność museum. A museum is an outdated, expensive machine. 
Demonstrate solidarity with the present! Show: Amnesty International, Médecins sans frontières, Caritas, etc.
The old factory buildings should become winter gardens for citizens.
Living on the water – launch an architectural competition.

Proposal to contextualise the scandalised Lueger monument by renaming the square.

Repurposing the barracks as a starting point for presenting Austrian history in Schönbrunn.

Vineyard in the city/walking trails / uplifting views / contemplative rest.

Highlighting the preciousness of Vienna's water in a central location near the town hall.

Christoph Walder's critical video ‘What Fish Want’ ends after 59 minutes.

A footbridge in the centre of Innsbruck remains as a permanent reminder, and wooden fish models make the lost biodiversity visible.