When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge

摘要

Leberecht Migge (1881-1935) had been left on the fringes of recent discussion about landscape architecture until David Haney decided to unravel the often-controversial thinking of this original and versatile man. While England discussed whether architects or gardeners should be in charge of making gardens, and the USA and Germany were considering the merits or otherwise of modernism in the construction of parks and public housing, Leberecht Migge was contributing to the making of all three landforms, and arguing about the meaning of his activity. He strongly supported modernist architects in the 1920s, and equally supported the conservative landscape architects in the 1930s. He also rejected the term "natural." All landscape is man made, he claimed, and therefore should be called "cultural." However, he was in search of a third way of looking at his activity, which was more of a synthesis of biological and ecological thinking that linked house and garden together. Many of his ideas appear to have been borrowed from other thinkers.