In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.

Modernism’, as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world’s design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women....

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.