05/26/2026
Garden 2 on the 2026 Book & Blooms Garden Tour 🌿
A landscape arranged for a postmodernist icon
The garden surrounding Peter Eisenman’s House VI (1972-75) reflects the geometric elements that make this house an icon of postmodernist architecture. Eisenman, one of the most influential theorists of late 20th-century architecture, based his design on the systematic manipulation of an abstract grid. In 2023, the current owner worked with landscape design studio Future Green to realize a garden where layers of stone, lawn, water, and primarily native plants echo the layered grid and lines of the house. Stone walls and steel-edged paths emphasize the linear and planar elements of the house, allowing the deliberate geometry to read all the more sharply against the pastoral setting.
Visit this serene oasis, and three others, on Saturday, June 20 from 10am to 4pm - part of our Books & Blooms annual fundraiser.
Tickets ➡️: CornwallLibrary.org - link in bioinformatics.
