Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for large-scale installations that use light, water, mist, and temperature to make perception itself the medium. Through Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin, since 1995) and Studio Other Spaces (with Sebastian Behmann), he bridges art, architecture, and environmental research. Landmark works include The Weather Project (Tate Modern, 2003), Green river interventions (1998–2001), the Serpentine Pavilion (2007, with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen), and The New York City Waterfalls (2008). His practice often functions as public pedagogy, staging climate, atmosphere, and collective experience in space. For landscape and urban design, Eliasson’s work is a toolkit for framing phenomena, choreographing publics, and making ecology sensorially legible.

Günther Vogt probably needs no introduction in our profession; he has been an important practitioner for a couple of decades now, appreciated globally for his rich, non-linear and adventurous design approach. Initially, his education was more in the direction of botany. He later shifted to landscape architecture by studying in Rapperswil, Switzerland. After his study […]

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