Open to The Sky

In 1993 Malene Hauxner published her highly acclaimed doctoral dissertation “Fantasiens have” [The Imaginary Garden]. Open to the Sky is a continuation dealing with the second stage of modernism from 1950-1970. The rise and fall of Nazism and the beginning of the atomic age led to the painful conclusion that human nature is dangerous when left unchecked. The new democratic welfare states that evolved after the Second World War wanted to civilize both man and nature and used landscaping and gardening to support their philosophy. Writing in a clear and lively style, Malene Hauxner summarizes the key theories and contributions of landscape architecture.