Hospitalfield, a place dedicated to art and ideas in the Scottish landscape
International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2025-2026
edited by Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
cover price 22 euros
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Antiga
Treviso 2026
188 pages, 202 illustrations in colour and 28 black and white
ISBN 978-88-84356246
Italian edition: ISBN 978-88-84356239
The thirty-fourth International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens is dedicated to Hospitalfield, a place that embodies the hospitality rooted in its history.
With newly inhabited spaces, carefully tended gardens and programmes devoted to contemporary art and education, proud both of its place in the Scottish landscape and the welcome it extends to its inhabitants and of belonging to the international milieu that witnessed its birth and continues to support it.
Founded on the east coast of Scotland by a monastic community at the beginning of the 13th century, Hospitalfield is now an ‘artists’ house’, an evolving project in which the confines between nature and art, architecture and landscape intertwine and are exploited through the active involvement of artists and local inhabitants exploring new instruments and modes of expression.
Contents
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens
Statement of the Carlo Scarpa Prize, by the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Lucy Byatt, Hospitalfield is an Artists’ House and has been for a very long time
Kirsty Bell, The Artist’s House, edited by Lucy Byatt
Adam Caruso, Hospitable solitude
Peter St John, Where interesting things happen
Nigel Dunnett, The Walled Garden at Hospitalfield
Carley Wootton, Where is the Community Garden? Reflections from the Community Gardener
Frances Fowle, Patrick Allan-Fraser and The Clique
Cicely Farrer, Supporting artists at Hospitalfield. A continuous Re-interpretation of purpose
Lucy Byatt, The Public Programme at Hospitalfield
Rebecca Chesney, Art, landscape and gardens. An artist’s reflection on her experience at Hospitalfield
Laura Darling, In the garden at Hospitalfield
Hospitalfield and its volunteers. The experience of Graham McNicol, Carolyn Siddalls and Alasdair Sutherland
Morag Smith, The geology of Arbroath and its influence on our landscape, culture and heritage
Thilo Folkerts, Multiplicities. A visit to Hospitalfield
Juan Manuel Palerm, The gardener and care architecture. Hospitalfield, the ‘house of ferns’ and Caruso St John Architects
Hospitalfield. Staff team since 2013
Carlo Scarpa Prize 1990-2026
The activities of the Carlo Scarpa Prize
Bibliography
The authors
lllustration references
