Garden

An exploration of Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects' interest in the garden as a topos and its meaning for their work, and a documentation of their temporary garden installation in Berlin in 2016.

Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded their firm in Zurich in 2005. Their broad scope of work encompasses the design and realisation of building projects, urban planning, exhibitions and publications. Housing is a key interest in their research, teaching, and practice. Beside individual teaching appointments, Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin are teaching as joint visiting professors at ETH Zurich in 2017-18.The garden, a recurring motif in the work of Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects, features prominently in many of their architectural projects as idea, vision, or built space. In their exhibition Garden at Architektur Galerie Berlin in autumn 2016, the architects foregrounded that topos and, in collaboration with Swiss landscape designer Daniel Ganz, transformed the gallery space into a living garden.This eponymous book features this temporary installation and offers an insight into its making through striking photographs. Essays by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin and Stephen Bates and a conversation with the architects by Martin Steinmann explore the meaning of the garden in a selection of their projects from an historical and theoretical perspective.