Fernando Caruncho

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Fernando Caruncho (born September 6, 1957 in Madrid ) is a Catalan landscape and garden architect . It always describes itself as a gardener.

Life

In 1975 he began studying philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid . However, he found no connection between science and the "terrifying cold ruin" of the 20th century world and considered giving up studies. In a seminar on Euripides he learned that Greek philosophy was connected with gardens and nature. Since 1978 he has therefore combined the studies of the pre-Socratics with the creation of gardens : he designed his uncle's garden (the house was designed by the architect Richard Neutra ). He then learned garden design at the Castillo de Batres School in Madrid. Caruncho mentions Descartes and Goethe among the philosophers who influenced him . He rejects Rousseau .

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The basis of his garden design is geometry, the basic shape of his thinking is transformation. While he was always bad at geometry in school, he found a help in the philosophy of Pythagoras and simple geometric shapes to cope with space and to evoke it in his gardens. Caruncho sees geometry as an inherited, not learned method, " a maternal language, ancient and forgotten, essential ". He describes the grid as his fishing net, which he throws into the room in order to fish the most amazing treasures from the seabed: "starfish, snails, giant squids and half-human forms". The golden ratio is the basis of all of his investments. According to Caruncho, he tries to "capture the light" in his gardens with simple, formally arranged systems. For Spanish gardens it is crucial how they deal with light. A garden should be a mirror of the universe and express order and balance. Caroncho sees the ancient Greeks as the spiritual ancestors of the " Indo-Europeans ". According to his own statements, he learned from the pre-Socratics to examine the fundamental building blocks of the universe, the "mythical-spiritual relationship between man and the universe" and the possibility of transforming the human mind.

Caronchu's role models are Luis Barragán , Tadao Ando and the Estonian city planner Louis Kahn . It is also influenced by the work of the early Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca and his obsession with geometry, as well as Gothic church windows. He rejects the English school of "unnaturally natural" landscape gardens by Capability Brown as well as the "tasteful and boring" country house gardens in imitation of Gertrude Jekyll . His favorite gardens are Vaux-le-Vicomte , the Boboli Gardens of the Palazzo Pitti of the Medici and the gardens of the Alhambra , all formally designed facilities.

Caruncho works mainly in the north-western Mediterranean region. The Toscana . and he describes ancient Greece as his spiritual home. His works are based on simple basic geometric shapes that are emphasized by block planting. He often uses the golden ratio as a grid. Its ponds and fountains are also mostly rectangular in shape. Although Caruncho describes himself as a gardener, he only works with a very limited range of plants, which, like Burle-Marx , he treats as extensive, not as individual plants. Even if he uses useful plants, their decorative aspect is in the foreground.

Gardens

In the Mas des Voltes , Caruncho used wheat fields, olive trees and cypress trees as part of the park, which is built on a rectangular grid. Caruncho sees it as an archetypal garden based on the Mediterranean triad of wheat, vines and olive trees. Rectangular carp ponds go back to the tradition of medieval Cistercian monasteries , but their cross-shaped arrangement is reminiscent of the Persian Tschahār Bāgh . Cherries, apple trees, pomegranates, figs and vines grow in the orchard. A round pond contains water lilies . Even if Caruncho claims that he is "restoring a cultural landscape that is thousands of years old", he intervened heavily in the landscape. Since the arable land of the former traditional farm was "exhausted", he had 5250m 3 of earth carted in from outside be poured in. Numerous non-European plants such as bamboo were planted. For the decorative wheat fields, Caruncho used modern varieties in which wild herbs are killed with herbicides . Flowers are out of place in this garden, whoever wants flowers should visit Sissinghurst .

literature

  • Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Dan Kiley: Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho . Monacelli, New York 2000, ISBN 1-58093-071-9
  • Janet Waymark 2003. Modern garden design. Innovation since 1900 . London, Thames and Hudson, 233-234.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 112
  2. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  3. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  4. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 113
  5. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 115
  6. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 115
  7. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 116
  8. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  9. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  10. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  11. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 113
  12. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 113
  13. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 113
  14. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  15. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  16. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  17. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 176
  18. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  19. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  20. ↑ Fernando Caruncho, The Spirit of the Geometrician. In: Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson (Eds.), Vista. The Culture and Politics of Gardens . London, Francis Loncoln 2005, 113
  21. ↑ http://web.fernandocaruncho.com/en/project/Flynn
  22. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 178
  23. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 179
  24. ^ Gordon Taylor, Guy Cooper, Gardens for the Future - Gestures against the Wild . New York, Monicelli 2000, 179
personal data
SURNAME Caruncho, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish landscape and garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid