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Hortus Conclusus (2000-2001)
Client
Breeze of Air Foundation, Rotterdam, within the framework of Rotterdam: Cultural Capital of Europe
The client assembled a team of consultants that could contribute to the programme for this event, which was aimed at innovative concepts for city gardens.
The project demanded an international team of designers from various cultures that would lend shape to selected sites in Rotterdam, all based on the theme of hortus conclusus: enclosed inner garden, city park, urban outdoor space. Additional events were a symposium and an exhibition of the designs (organized in collaboration with the Witte de With Gallery). The client asked the SAG for someone who was part author, part lecturer and part observer (for the symposium).
The following section offers two statements made by Erik de Jong (in a book published by NAi Publishers in the spring of 2002 and in the Clusius Lectures, published by the Clusius Foundation in 2001).
Erik de Jong
Publication
Erik de Jong, 'De ervaring van de tuin', in: Breeze of Air. Vernieuwende concepten voor stadstuinen, Rotterdam 2001, 3; and Erik de Jong, "'Hortus Conclusus': open of gesloten, zichtbaar of onzichtbaar?" in: Charles Correa and Erik de Jong, Text of the Clusius Lectures / Tekst van de Clusiuslezingen 2001, Leiden, Clusius Foundation, 2001, 5-26
Erik de Jong, 'Hortus Conclusus: the law of the garden' and 'Prelude to a new understanding of garden design', in: A. Devolder and others (eds), The Public Garden. The Enclosure and Disclosure of the Public Garden, Rotterdam 2002, 29-38 and 167-170