Contemporary Garden Design that expresses planes????

Both Laurie Olin and Peter Walker discuss the genius of Andre Le Notre. Simo and Walker say of him, via a discussion of Roberto Burle Marx, that he "... places objects on a plane not to glorify the object but to express the plane itself. And however enriched with patterning and planting, the plane remains taut."


What is meant by this? Can you find examples in contemporary garden design or landscape architecture that expresses this?
To me this question is really about the landscape in the wider sense; Coastlines and mountain ranges. And relating back to previous blog thinking about the enclosed garden and how that only works in context with surrounding areas. In the same way in which this question says ‘places objects on a plane not to glorify the object but to express the plan itself’ the same way a garden designed in a way the works slides into it context along the plane, relating this to vistas and views from the garden and along the context plane, then enriched with patterning and planting. The use of landscape brings me to some of the designs of Antony Paul and when i went to an SGD Conference last year, he shwed us images of his designs and i really felt the fitted in with the landscape surrounding the design.

Below are some of the images to show the plane of landscape and background..