Fernando Caruncho

His most recent projects are in Lugano, Switzerland; Isola Bella, a Project of an island in Maine, Fundación Botín working together with Renzo Piano in Santander, Spain; a Project next to the sea in Greece; and one at Vigneto de L’Amastuola in Apulia, Italy.

"Caruncho’s relation to religion is important. It is easy to see his correspondence of religion and environment, like falling over into something it’s obvious once you have the knowledge and the background. What is religion but our desire to know where, how, and why we stand in this world? And as I said in my own book, "The greatest contribution a designer can make is to link the human and the natural in such a way as to recall our fundamental place in the scheme of things."

"Il se considère comme un jardinier et non comme un architecte paysagiste, terme qu’il trouve prétentieux et superficiel. "

"Pour Chaumont, face à la sophistication des tours du château, il propose une gloriette de bois brut, construite à partir de troncs non écorcés récupérés des abattages d’arbres malades du parc. On peut difficilement faire moins cher et, finalement plus juste en tous points: la pente vers le château, l’équilibre des formes, la justesse des choix de végétaux. "

"La plupart des jardins de Fernando Caruncho ne sont pas ouverts à la visite, ce qui est finalement très bien: on a bien le temps de s’apercevoir qu’il laissera une trace sans équivalent dans la nouvelle création de jardins méditerranéens des prochaines décennies. "

"Aujourd’hui, Caruncho conçoit des jardins étonnants, où des sols de marbre géométriques côtoient un champ de blé, où une maison d’été se résout en une structure de plantes grimpantes. Mais qui est Caruncho, qui refuse de travailler pour la commande publique, mais dont les formes paysagères marquent notre époque? »

Penelope Hobhouse describes the book on Fernando Caruncho’s work, as one of her essentials.

Tim Richardson points out that his formality mark is deep, it is not limited to being a design tool, it is more like a fundamental belief inspired through his philosophical studies. This sense of order and balance results from the combination of Fernando Caruncho’s aesthetic legacy, with the history of landscaping.

"I liked Fernando Caruncho enormously and found we have a very similar outlook on garden design –we like to let the garden find itself, rather than impose a preconceived plan on to the land."

His second major publication was in July 1992 in that same magazine after two issues in which special attention is devoted to Jacques Wirtz and Russell Page, written by Jean-Paul Pigeat, Director General of Jardines de France and founder of the Festival des Jardins Chaumont-sur-Loire. He was invited to the first edition along with the great 10 Landscape designers at that moment, being Caruncho the youngest of all of them by far.

In 1979 he began his studies at the Castillo de Batres, private landscaping school in Madrid, in these years he unites both influences giving his work as a gardener a personal identity and character.

In 1979 Caruncho established his own studio. His first work accomplished at the age of 21, in a house in Madrid, published in VOGUE DECORATION in May 1987, Edited in Paris.

At 1975, at the age of 18, Fernando Caruncho started his philosophy studies in the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, where he had the experience to learn about the philosophy of the early Greek philosophers who strongly marked him, as well as other thinkers of our day, heirs of this tradition up to the philosophers. This is why he is very influenced by aspects related to geometry, light and the knowledge of nature. During his career the influence of the world of poetry, music and painting is recognized, which have been essential to shape his eye and sensibility to read the site and translate it with a new contemporary language to the garden.

Fernando Caruncho (born September 6, 1957 in Madrid, Spain) is an International Landscape designer and philosopher. Famous for his minimalist gardens and the use of light and organic shapes.