Gardening the interior: Odo Strewe inside the 1980s

Odo Strewe arrived in New Zealand 1938, a refugee from Nazi Germany. After release internment on Matiu (Somes Island) as an Enemy Alien during World War Two, he married and moved to Auckland where started landscape design construction business. had explored the idea of plants inside buildings very first house that made for his family Glen Eden, 1949. An Australian journalist writing about described interior "with tropical paw paws almost coming indoors join forces with banana is really growing fruiting, right house." continued advocate this disciplinary contest subsequent years by indoor gardening Modern Homes Gardens designing gardens challenged boundaries between interior. This paper will explore strategies two Strewe's 1960s developed aspect practice.