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Erik Dhont is a Landscape Architect based in Brussels and Geneva. He founded his own practice in 1989, and during his career he designed numerous large-scale private and public projects in Europe and overseas, all of them linked together by a thorough understanding of and a respect for nature.
Among other projects, in 1997 he designed a park for fashion designer Dries Van Noten and in 2003 started working with the project of the garden of Baron and Baroness Guy Ullens de Schooten. In 2014 he designed the garden of Musée Picasso in Paris for its re-opening. His portfolio includes many projects such as gardens, farmyards, urban developement and landscape restorations in Belgium and abroad, with commissions in Switzerland, France, Germany, California and in the Azores.
During his career, he worked in collaboration with many professionals. For example, he worked with Philippe Samyn, for the Head Office of AGC Glass Europe, and 360 Architecten for the New Learning Center at the Gasthuisberg Campus of KU Leuven. In the field of interior design, he worked with Axel Vervoordt and Geert Voorjans; he collaborated with architects such as Paul Ibens, Juan Carlos Menendez and François Marcq for projects related to the historical heritage. He also worked with Jean-François Bodin for different cultural projects.
In 2013 Erik Dhont was the curator of the Belgian pavillion at L’Art du Jardin, an international exhibition of landscape and garden design in Paris. In 2014 The Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels dedicated an exhibition to the conceptual landscape models of Erik Dhont in a dialogue with the drawings of the early 20th Century Landscape Architect Jean Canneel-Claes.