Human Nature: Pools, Lakes, Gardens and Forests explores two of architecture’s subordinate elements: swimming pools and gardens. Though initially seeming to be innocent and decorative, they embody architecture’s megalomaniac obsession with manipulating the environment and defining boundaries. The lens of the camera exposes their transcalar and ambitious intentions: gardens are constructed forests, pools are domesticated lakes.
Besides being places of great affection and joy, swimming pools and gardens are generally recessive to iconic buildings and condemned to the background of most architectural photography. Here, they are brought to the foreground as the main protagonists.
Through the neglected accounts of pools and gardens, one might ask: what is natural? What is artificial? What is big? What is small? These are the ambiguities of human nature.
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