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Emerging from survival, the garden, an enclosed space, is surely the primordial architecture of mankind. Its purpose is to come as close as possible to Paradise, to the space of cultivated and guarded abundance, for the nourishment of the body and for the recreation and enjoyment of the spirit.

The cliché of Paradise is the island; like the garden, it is also a bounded space, in this case by no person but by the forces of nature and its laws, which exercise control over the beings who live there. But do islands cultivate the spirit, like the garden? Can islands be architectures of identity, …