Abstract

This article introduces the Gulbenkian garden as an example of the idea of Garden in Portuguese Culture. Though the Gulbenkian garden was designed in the sixties and influenced by the modern movement the study of the ideas and of the all process of design reveals that this garden exceeds dogmatic principies of the modern garden. The garden is much more a framework where light, water, vegetation were designed by their materiality and their temporality than a product of artistic mediation. The reasons of this approach to the landscape design are cultural ones. Above all an aristotelic Nature’s idea and the sense of fraternity with Nature that we may find in our culture.