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  • Thursday, September 25, 7:00 pm – Gardner Museum Landscape Lecture: Eelco Hooftman

    Join the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for its annual series of engaging and inspirational presentations from leading voices in the field of landscape architecture. Internationally renowned designers present their recent work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the social, cultural, and ecological life of the city. On Thursday, September 25, meet Eelco Hooftman. Hooftman, together with Bridget Baines, is founding partner of GROSS. MAX. landscape architects, Edinburgh. The firm’s current projects include a master plan to transform Tempelhof Freiheit, Berlin, from a 360-hectare airport into a new public park, and a linear park representing an artificial mountain range in the Central Business District of Beijing. GROSS. MAX. was awarded the 2006 European Landscape Award by Topos magazine. Landscape Lectures begin at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall. Lectures include Museum admission and require a ticket; tickets can be reserved online, in person at the door, or by phone: 617 278 5156. Museum admission: adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for members. To order tickets online, visit http://www.gardnermuseum.org/landscape/lectures.

  • Saturday, November 20, 1:30 pm – The Public Realm of the Senses

    Landscape architecture is a visual art defined in part by the representation of nature. Landscape painting was the direct inspiration for the constructed landscape. The digital landscape of the 21st century is about new ways to visualize the landscape and to create a change of scenery. The pixel is our pigment; the computer screen is our canvas. Eelco Hooftman, landscape architect, will speak as part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Landscape Visions lectures for 2010/2011, in the Tapestry Room at the Museum on Saturday, November 20, beginning at 1:30 pm.

    Hooftman discusses recent projects including the Landscape Master Plan for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

    Award winning landscape architect Eelco Hooftman, founding partner of G R O S S. M A X., in Edinburgh, Scotland, questions conventional assumptions about urban spaces, landscape, and nature. Tickets are $15 (General Public), $12 (Seniors), $5 (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum members), and free to students. To purchase tickets, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.  The Landscape Visions lecture series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan.