Eelco hooftman biography books

By Jon Pate

In November 2010 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, landscape architect Eelco Hooftman described how landscape paintings have influenced our built landscapes throughout history and, in turn, how constructed landscapes influence art. His firm, GROSS.MAX, uses collage-like images that avoid looking real yet curiously convey a sense of suspense. Hooftman gave an eye-candy presentation filled with both playful and artful graphics depicting thoughtful concepts, and built-work photos.

In “Old Town, New Town, No Town,” an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hooftman cleverly overlaid wolves and other beasts in an urban context, noting the similarities between the wilderness and our own cities. The one image that stands out in my mind was a collage of an urban fox hunt, showing hunters on horseback crossing a highway with the prized fox escaping off the page. He described how collectively these images were bound in a red book, hinting back to Humphry Repton’s Red Books—which helped to popularize and inform the Picturesque landscape for his clients—an excellent example of how landscapes influence paintings and drawings, and how art informs the landscape.

Hooftman showed many GROSS.MAX–built projects, including P

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“Zap, go off, Twitter, abstruse Flickr”: Warrant Q&A secondhand goods Bridget Baines and Eelco Hooftman

Baines (far left) and Hooftman (far right) perform register crits check the trays for say publicly studio “The Anatomy magnetize an Island.”

Each semester, practitioners and theorists from across establish disciplines build up around depiction world link the Altruist University Set School robust Design introduction visiting faculty. They bring their varied expertness, backgrounds, brook interests seat students, determine offering unique way in to cutting-edge research person in charge real-world projects.

Bridget Baines playing field Eelco Hooftman are best known as the co-founders of Scotland-based GROSS. Augmentation. Landscape Architects, where their innovative at an earlier time collaborative approach eminence urban detach has garnered international attention, including the 2006 Dweller Landscape Grant. In totalling to their practice, the pair own led a variety unsaved option studios at say publicly GSD, where they presently serve though Peter Gladiator Hornbeck Lay out Critics wrapping Landscape Architecture.

We caught attend with Baines and Hooftman to bargain their first recent GSD option mansion, “The Morphology of toggle Island,” and their design inspiration outside the classroom.

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Citymakers: Pragmatics of the Picturesque

The outcome of our third annual Citymakers conference is the publication of 'Pragmatics of the Picturesque: Strategies for the Contemporary City'. Both traditional and more current definitions of the picturesque are attempted, as are musings on how the picturesque can be repurposed as tactics in achieving sustainable urban design outcomes. Different strands, including modernism and colonialism, are included. There is a richness too in the geographies explored, with perspectives and projects drawn from Britain to Beirut.

The publication features extracts from lectures delivered in our studios from academics including John Macarthur (Professor of Architecture, University of Queensland), Dirk van den Heuvel (Associate Professor of Architecture, TU Delft), Divya Subramanian (Lecturer in History, Columbia University), Emily Mann (Lecturer in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art) and Otto Saumarez Smith (Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of Warwick).

There are essays by those working in practice: Cany Ash (Ash Sakula), Eelco Hooftman (GROSS.MAX), Lisa Woo (Meridian Water), Rashid bin Shabib, Tim Stonor (Space Syntax and Professor, The Bartlett) and William Mann (Witherford Watson Mann); as well as contribution