Eelco Hooftman is a landscape architect and together with Bridge Baines, founded Gross Max Landscape Architects, Edinburgh.  Eelco studied at the University of Agriculture Wageningen, Netherlands.  Between 1990-2008 he taught at the School of Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art.  He has been a regular visiting critic at AA London, Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, and ETH Zurich.

 Since 2008 Eelco is visiting professor at GSD, Harvard.  Current projects include Tempelhof Freiheit, Berlin – a master plan for the transformation of a 360 hectare former airport into a new public park, and a linear Park representing an artificial mountain range in the Central Business District of Beijing.  Gross Max has been awarded the European Landscape Award 2006 by Topos Magazine.