Cooperating closely with architects, observing and continuing the discipline's traditions, designing open spaces temporarily or for the long term, overcoming the crisis of artificiality - the challenges to contemporary landscape architecture are taking on increasingly complex dimensions. How can buildings and open space be integrated by means of design? What potential results from the interaction of landscape planning and the art of engineering? What are the consequences of design chasing after artificiality? Using examples from numerous contemporary landscape, urban, and private propects and in thematic essays by renowned authors (e.g., Karl Ganser, Thies Schröder, Christian Welzbacher), this attractive book reveals the pioneering responses that contemporary landscape architects offer to such central questions.