Juan Grimm is considered the father of landscape architecture in Chile. His designs
persistently underscore the sublimities of nature and incorporate the environments surrounding
them. Although he works mainly with local flora he creates breathtakingly new landscape
textures. As South America's most important landscape architect he has designed and built
nearly one thousand hectares of garden as well as private and public parks in Chile Argentina
Peru and Uruguay including the gardens of the Bahá'í Temple in Santiago and of a Benedictine
abbey. Featuring drawings photographs interviews and extensive companion essays this book
presents Grimm's body of work his methods his sources of inspiration and his artistic aims.
Selected examples ranging from small gardens to large parks illustrate Grimm's development
over the course of thirty years. At the same time it is not only Grimm's work that is on
display but the model of Chilean landscape architecture of which his work is exemplary.
