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Eelco Hooftman studied landscape architecture at Wageningen and runs his practice GROSS.

MAX from Edinburgh. Eelco is said to combine a Dutch sense of experimentation with a British sense of humour and German rigour. This lecture, delivered at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis in 2013, is relaxed,  enjoyable and inspiring.

Were I thinking about a career, it would make me want to be a landscape architect.

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Were I looking for design work, it would make me want to enter landscape architecture competitions. The summary, below, is not a transcript: it uses some quotation and some re-phrasing of points made by Eelco Hooftman.

NB: if you don’t have time for the whole video, be sure to watch the animation which runs for 5 minutes (from 1:16:30 to 1:21:08).

As landscape architects we never have a tabula rasa – we are always writing chapters in a book.

In the last ten years we have done many projects with Zaha Hadi