E v o l u t i o n   o f   a n   e n t r y   c o u r t y a r d        Joseph Stella           

July 11, 2005     Zoning requirements determined the location of the new playhouse
at the rear corner of the property.  A new
entry driveway
was planned,
creating a new
entry space.

July 30,2005 playhouse foundation poured     June 8, 2007, playhouse constructed

On gardens as sculpture                                                                                                                    
"I like to think of gardens as sculpturing of space: a beginning, and a groping to another level of sculptural
experience and use: a total sculpture space experience beyond individual sculptures. A man may enter such a space:
it is in scale with him; it is real. An empty space has no visual dimension or significance. Scale and meaning enter
when some thoughtful object or line is introduced. This is why sculptures, or rather sculptural objects, create space.
Their function is illusionist. The size and shape of each element is entirely relative to all the others and the given space.
What may be incomplete as sculptural entities are of significance to the whole." 
  Isamu Noguchi

June 2007   garden design begins                                                                                                   

July 2007  work commences