Beasley Dickson were tasked with providing an architectural intervention and exhibition design for ‘John Brookes: the man who made the modern garden’, at the Garden Museum, Lambeth. The exhibition celebrated the long career of John Brookes and his legacy in the English landscape, notably at a domestic scale. The rigour of Brooke’s work and the interaction he forged between building and garden paved the way in which architects continue to lay out gardens to this day. The exhibition design drew from his method of setting a rigorous structure to the garden layout, either derived from the architecture or a distinct landscape feature. The gallery was rationalised into a grid, defining a space within which to replicate the experience of looking out to the garden, whilst forming a podium to display the work. The scale of the gallery, echoed the scale of the gardens detailed in his ‘Room Outside’. The layout forcing intimacy and alluding to a more domestic language: a duality of being inside looking out, and simultaneously being within the grid of a Brookes’ garden. Materials were chosen recalling the simplicity of garden materials: plaster, panelling, timber. The grid was broken by curved walls, as natural lines of a garden, breaking to the beyond. Evocative of the garden designer and their interruption of nature. Views between panels and timber frames guided the visitor through the exhibition with a sense of exploration.