Eelco Hooftman is a landscape architect and together with Bridge Baines, founded Gross Max Landscape Architects, Edinburgh.  Eelco studied at the University of Agriculture Wageningen, Netherlands.  Between 1990-2008 he taught at the School of Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art.  He has been a regular visiting critic at AA London, Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, and ETH Zurich.

Xi'an Horticultural Expo
Xi’an Horticultural Expo

Since 2008 Eelco is visiting professor at GSD, Harvard.  Current projects include Tempelhof Freiheit, Berlin – a master plan for the transformation of a 360 hectare former airport into a new public park, and a linear Park representing an artificial mountain range in the Central Business District of Beijing.  Gross Max has been awarded the European Landscape Award 2006 by Topos Magazine.

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Beijing Central Park

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