They were convinced that architecture and nature could achieve a perfect harmony if they were mutually dependent on and permeated each other.
Museum Esters House, Krefeld, garden side| Photo: Volker Döhne Later, the married couple Hermann Mattern and Herta Hammerbacher sowed the seeds of this new modern school of gardening and landscape architecture. In the early 1930s, a circle of landscape gardeners and landscape architects gathered around Foerster, a perennial cultivator, seeking a connection between the building, the city and landscapes.
To implement gardens, terraces, courtyards and squares, he sought advice from experts, including the Berlin gardener and garden philosopher Karl Foerster. Mies van der Rohe was one of the few Bauhaus architects who also conceived and planned the exterior spaces around his buildings. Although there were repeated efforts to open a garden art class, the idea never made it beyond the drawing board. Landscape gardening or landscape architecture, the artistic study of shaping exterior spaces, was not regarded as training for a specific profession. Designing areas around the new, minimalist-formalist buildings was not an officially taught subject at the Bauhaus.
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