Why do the gardens of executives so often look like the work of architects obsessed with the fascism of geomet

Question

geometry?

you know what i mean...gardens as designed by technical drawers [who've had their hearts and souls surgically extracted!]

and who'r obsessed with perfect circles and straight lines.

do you too want to blow someones brains out when you hear the term "outdoor room".

how and when did these architects & interior designers start infiltrating the world of gardening?

do you think they will eventually succeed in domesticating the human mind, paving the way for a robotic culture of Clean Lines, where all thats wild and meandering .. organically complex and stubbornly raggedly dishevelledly gorgeous, is consigned to the history books.

is this nightmare neatly summed up by the orwellian image of an archetects boot stamping on a gardeners face forever...as he intones "you Will submit to my geometry"

Answer 1

those corporate swine love the clean, modelized, style of turning nature to plastic, unreal, unnatural "art".

Answer 2

I think it's just lack of imagination, plain and simple.  Being unable to "see" beyond the textbook.  I call it the DIY network effect.

Answer 3

Some people like that look, otherwise it wouldn't take off and you'd have one less thing to moan about.

Answer 4

not in MY yard, cookie!!... LOL!.....

there's this other thing, too.... landscape help.... too often you can't describe 'free-flowing' lines.... so little round balls and square boxes are easier for them to handle....

Answer 5

Because that look is currently fashionable.

If they'd lived in Edwardian England, you just know those very same people would have gone for some great Harold Peto-esque romantic Italianate vision, with Jekyll-inspired perennial borders thrown in for good measure.  If they'd lived in Victorian times, it would have been all brightly-colored annual bedding, plus a fernery or somesuch.

Garden styles go in and out of fashion, just like clothing does, and people highly invested in status always want to have whatever's "in."

Marvellous last paragraph, by the way.  I grinned.  And no, I'd not mind never hearing the term "outdoor room" again either, thanks.

Answer 6

Errr you are a little extreme but I do know where you are coming from. Lots of executives live very busy lives and are only interested in perfection of results. They carry this over to their surroundings, perfect teeth, perfect kitchen, perfect life, perfect garden etc.

Don't forget, it's status symbol stuff too. Look at my clean and asthetic line garden designed by Mojogoobunkumcrapartist...only the best of course.

  I say, let a weed grow between the cracks in the paving, nature at its best!

Answer 7

I think that the more money people have to work with, the more they want bigger and better and perfect..to them over-groomed, precise,too geometric is that "perfect". It looks too rigid and artificial if you ask me. i like my cottage style garden with it's meandering paths and plants all grown in together...It actually feels comfortable to walk through it..and not like I'm going to mess up how it looks by my presence.

Answer 8

Because they can afford it.  Jealous?