Introduction : The nature of the garden
The gardens of Kyoto / Lee Ufan
Even the moon borrows its light from the sun / Tan Twan Eng
Mitate : a leap of imagination / Tatsuo Miyajima
The hidden, implied and imagined
The geometry of nature / Marcus du Sautoy
Zen challenge : the unenterable garden
Time, space and the dry garden
Limitless space / John Pawson
Void, silence and transition / Anish Kapoor
Death, tea and the garden
Inner space : the courtyard garden
Architecture of the garden / Tadao Andō
Periods of Japanese history