Erik Dhont (born 14 February 1962) is a

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. Dhont was born in

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, a

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. After receiving a diploma in graphic arts he decided to become a landscape architect. He finished landscape architecture studies in

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in 1986 and founded his own practice in Brussels in 1989. "Renowned for his free and sensitive interpretations of historical garden design", in his work he combines landscaping with art and the use of abstract forms is typical in his design. During his career, he designed numerous large-scale private projects in Europe but also overseas. Among other projects, in 1997 he designed a 55-acre park for fashion designer

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and in 2003 started working with the project of the garden of Baron and Baroness Guy Ullens de Schooten. In 2014 Dhont designed garden

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for its re-opening. His portfolio includes other projects as gardens, farmyards, and landscape restorations such as the one at Baljuwshuis, Gaasbeek, near Brussels, working for Baron and Baroness

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between 1992–5, and the restoration of the landscape around the Palm Brewery, Diepensteyn, Steenhuffel-Londerzeel. In addition to other private gardens, he also worked with public spaces, like for example in a park in Schaarbeek, Brussels. Outside Belgium he has projects in Switzerland, France, Germany, California and in the Azores. He worked in collaboration with many architects, such as

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, for the Head Office of AGC Glass Europe, 360 Architecten for the New Learning Center at the Gasthuisberg Campus of

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, and interior designers like Axel Vervoordt or Gert Voorjans, at Dries Van Noten's House. Dhont was asked to represent Belgium at L'Art du Jardin international exhibition of landscape and gardening in Paris in 2013. The

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organized combined exhibition of drawings of Jean Canneel-Claes and plaster models from Dhont in 2014. In 2015 he attended the international meeting of the landscape and garden I Maestri del Paesaggio in Bergamo as one of the invited speakers.

Bibliography

* * *Dhont, Erik (2021). ''Erik Dhont Landscape Architects: Works 1999–2020'' (in French and English). Hatje Cantz

References

External links

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Entry at Dumbarton Oaks library
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