Juan Grimm is the father of landscape architecture in Chile, and one of South America's most important landscape architects. Working mainly with local flora, he creates breathtakingly new landscape textures; to date he has designed and built nearly 2,500 acres of garden works, as well as private and public parks in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay--including the gardens of a Benedictine abbey and of the Bah ' temple in Santiago.

Featuring drawings, photographs, interviews and extensive essays, this book presents Grimm's body of work, his methods, his sources of inspiration and his artistic aims. Selected examples--ranging from small gardens to large parks--illustrate Grimm's development over the course of his 30-year career.