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Intersections - Eelco Hooftman

Tuesday 8 December 6pm - 7.30pm
Yellow Urban Rooms, 2nd Floor, Farrell Centre, 缅北禁地

Join us for the next instalment in our 2026-2027 Intersections series, jointly hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape and the Farrell Centre. Attendance is free of charge, but booking is required to guarantee your place. 

Biography

Eelco Hooftman (b.1960), co-founder and creative director of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects graduated from the University of Agriculture Wageningen, The Netherlands. Eelco integrates theory and practice of landscape architecture in an extensive output of (international) projects and award-winning competitions. Work includes urban revitalization, botanic gardens, landscape installations and public spaces. His work - often in collaboration with world renowned architects- can be found across Europe, Middle East and Asia. GROSS. MAX. reached international prominence after winning the international competition for the transformation of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. The works of GROSS. MAX. are inspired by the notion of a radical picturesque and has a strong affinity with art. The studio contributed to numerous international art and architecture festivals including Glasgow “99, AIR Rotterdam, Emsherkunst, Liverpool Biennial, and ARTpark Glasgow.

Works have been widely published and exhibited internationally at Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum Japan, Witte de Wit Centre for Contemporary Art Rotterdam, Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen, British Library and V&A Dundee. Eelco is recognized internationally as a leading voice and a regular speaker including keynote lectures at the Natural History Museum Milan, Tate Britain, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, Walker Art Centre Minneapolis and Bread & Heart Festival Tirana. Eelco co-founded and directed the post graduate course Art / Space and Nature at the Edinburgh School of Art.  Between 2009-2018 Eelco was appointed visiting professor at GSD Harvard. He has been visiting professor at ETH Zurich and Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam. Eelco is member elect of The Royal Scottish Academy.

GROSS. MAX. was awarded the Topos International landscape award for, according to the jury, ‘their individual design concepts and major part in shaping the style of landscape architecture in the early 21st century’.