Calder Gardens

Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog

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Hauser & Wirth
21 October 2025

Landscape art & architecture

A rare glimpse into the mind of Jacques Herzog, Calder Gardens: Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog traces the poetic and probing journey behind a visionary cultural landmark where architecture, art, and landscape meet.

Calder Gardens: Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog gives unique insights into the creative process that led to the architectural realization of the Calder Gardens in Philadelphia-a new cultural destination that brings together the visionary architecture of Herzog & de Meuron and the meticulous garden design of Piet Oudolf to celebrate the human spirit through Alexander Calder's art.

This large-format publication invites readers to look over Jacques Herzog's shoulder during the development of the project. Numerous sketches and drawings are grouped into ten chapters, from ""Vertical Stacks of Fragments"" to ""The Underground Is Not Innocent,"" each accompanied by an equally personal short text. As Herzog writes in the preface, ""The drawings express uncertainty and doubt, perhaps also enthusiasm in moments when they made me believe I was reaching a new step in finding out what the architectural and sculptural identity of the project was going to be."" A selection of collages and study models round out this deep-dive into the acclaimed architect's working method, artistic intelligence, and questioning, creative approach.

Text by: Jacques Herzog
Imprint: Hauser & Wirth
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 300mm,
Weight: 1.420kg
ISBN: 9783907493106
ISBN 10: 3907493109
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Calder Gardens 4 Vertical Stacks of Fragments? 7 Not Form but Space (below ground) 19 A Plaza and Gardens 27 The Plaza - Function, Shape, Identity? 35 The Plaza as Disc 51 The wall, the Disc, the Sunken Gardens 63 The Wall and the Barn 81 Galleries like Personalities 99 Artificial – Natural 117 The Underground is not Innocent 139

Jacques Herzog (b. 1950) is a Swiss architect and co-founder of international architecture firm Herzog & De Meuron.Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2001), the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (UK, 2007), the Praemium Imperiale (Japan, 2007), and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (USA, 2014). In 2015, they co-founded the charitable foundation ""Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel"".

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