Eelco Hooftman
LAND / SCAPE /
ARCHITECTURE
Date: 1/10/2012
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture Hall
The first of four talks
in the Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series, organised by the AA Graduate School
Landscape Urbanism Programme. Open to all.
Landscape Architecture
interacts in a complex continuum between man and nature, town and country, land
and architecture. We no longer reconcile the duality of opposite forces but
orchestrate and choreograph a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interactions. How
to turn towards a new landscape architecture of sustainable optimism; a potent
mix of artificial intelligence and natural instinct?
Eelco Hooftman is a
founding partner with Bridget Baines of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects. He
integrates theory and practice of landscape architecture in an extensive output
of projects that combines a Dutch sense of experimentation with a British sense
of humor and a German sense of rigour. Hooftman has regularly visited as a
critic at the AA School and is the first landscape architect to be selected as
member of the Royal Society of the Arts in Scotland. In 2010, Building
Designrecognised GROSS. MAX. as Public Realm Architect of the Year. The
studio’s collaborators include Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Amanda Levete
Architects, Piet Oudolf and artist Mark Dion. Current projects include
Tempelhof Freiheit, the transformation of the former Tempelhof Airport in
Berlin and a linear park for the Central Business District in Beijing.
The first of a 4-part
lecture series organised by the Open to all.
