Picking up on architecture's tradition of teaching professional experience to students through
conversation this book provides insight into the ideas methods and memories of Günther Vogt
and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his
profession.With reference to five different locations Günther Vogt speaks about current themes
of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city about his teaching
at the ETH Zürich and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects he describes his perception
of the lanscape as a cabinet of curiostities tells how he collects various phenomena and
individual elements relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader's mind's
eye unfolds a cosmos in which the lack of wholeness of the landscape seems to be a gain rather
than a loss.
