Contemporary Gardens in Metis

What is a garden? Why do we make them?

The annual International Garden Festival poses the question to designers as well as visitors.  The answers encourage imagination and creative freedom, allow for innovation and experimentation, and provide an experience that awakens the public mind and exposes the artistry of landscape architecture.

Every year, [...]

Bilbao Jardin

Diana Balmori of New York based Balmori Associates was invited to design a garden for the International Urban Garden Competition (Bilbao Jardin 2009). The site chosen for the garden is on the steps between two Arata Isozaki towers leading to the steel and glass Campo Volantin footbridge in Bilbao, Spain.

Lessons from Piet

One of the many lessons we can learn from the internationally acclaimed gardener Piet Oudolf is to procrastinate…Put off your fall garden clean up work until spring!

Piet Oudolf has been designing gardens for 35 years, including gardens in Chicago’s Millenium Park, and New Yorks Battery Park and the recent High Line [...]

Real Gardeners

Despite my earlier blogs on what is landscape architecture and my attempt to distance our profession from the label of gardeners, I have to admit that I love to garden. In fact, one of the things that drew me to landscape architecture in the first place was a fascination with how people inhabit [...]