TEAM
Philomene van der Vliet and Jan Maas founded BOOM Landscape in 2012.
JAN MAAS [M.LA]
Jan Maas obtained in 2003 a Bachelor Degree with special Honours in Landscape Architecture and Environment Management at the International Agricultural College, Netherlands. Working for Strootman Landschapsarchitecten he worked on a variety projects in landscape design and public space. In 2009 he obtained a Master degree in landscape architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Read more >
Philomene van der Vliet [M.LA]
After her training as a musician at the conservatory of Utrecht, Amsterdam and The Hague, Philomene van der Vliet studied landscape architecture in Arnhem, London and Amsterdam. As a guest teacher she works at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the HKU in Utrecht. After working as a designer and freelance designer for several renowned Dutch offices, she started Vliet Landscapes in 2007 which has been a independent entity in the design collective Atelier byBali for 6 years. Philomene van der Vliet and Jan Maas joined forces and founded BOOM Landscape 2012. Read more >
María Eugui [M. ARCH]
María is a designer at BOOM Landscape. She’s from the north of Spain and has a Master in Architecture from the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona and Madrid, specializing in urbanism. Read more >
Luiz Rampazio [M. Arch]
Luiz was born and raised in Brazil. He graduated from the University of Sao Paulo, where he studied architecture and urbanism. He also studied one year abroad, at the Architecture School of Paris-Malaquais. His academic background emphasizes the interdisciplinary between landscape design, architecture and urban design. Read more >
Roshdy Eltonouby [M.Arch]
Roshdy obtained his master's degree in Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design at the Politecnico di Milano in 2019. As a technical project manager at BOOM, he has a keen eye for detail and materialization. In all his designs, he integrates well-thought-out, sustainable solutions, such as rainproof measures, that contribute to resilient and future-proof urban environments. Read more >
Augusto Rodrigues [M. Arch]
Augusto was born and raised in Brazil and worked there as an engineer for several renowned urban planning agencies. "I am fascinated by combining urban planning with landscaping and prefer to create designs that improve people's experience and quality of life." Read more >
Melissa Pearson [B.Sc]
Melissa Pearson is a landscape Designer at BOOM Landscape. After finishing her Landscape Architecture Bachelor at the TU Munich, she decided to continue her studies at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, where she is pursuing her Master's degree. She is passionate about landscape systems varying from large to small scales and understanding their specific characteristics and values. Allowing nature and its cycles to take place and vary over time, be it in urban or rural environments, is what inspires her designs and work the most. Read more >
Sander Rutgers
Sander Rutgers is a landscape designer and team lead at BOOM Landscape. After completing his studies at TU Delft and gaining professional experience at architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, he founded his own architecture practice in Ghent, Belgium. With the botanical world as a point of departure, Sander designs spaces that embrace soil, seasonality, scent, and the living rhythms of nature. Read more >
Dylan McBride
Dylan is a junior designer at BOOM while studying at the DesignLab department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He has experience with both 3D & 2D design, through the lens of a conceptual art practice. A view that he now broadens and applies to landscape architecture. “As a multidisciplinary designer, I explore street cultures and their place within larger systems. I am particularly interested in the act of play and its importance in culture”. Dylan plans to graduate the academy in 2024 and go on to work as a junior designer. Read more >
Febe de Niel [BSc]
Febe is a landscape designer at BOOM and studies at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. She works with a visual approach and searches in her designs for the stories and layers that characterise a place. She finds inspiration in art, culture and ecology. She immerses herself in narrative drawings and the depiction of futures, in which feeling and atmosphere are translated into form. Read more >
CHARLOTTE DELOBBE [M.LA]
Charlotte is a landscape designer at BOOM Landscape. After her architecture master in Liege, Belgium, in 2022, she studied landscape architecture at the TU Delft. She is passionate about large scale projects and the integration of circularity and nature-based solutions from the regional scale down to the local scale. Her designs are driven by storytelling and building a project from the perspective of local communities in order to propose sensitive and thorough design strategies. Read more >
Anne Bon
Anne is our indispensable and ever radiant office manager. She was born in Utrecht and after many wanderings – Taiwan, Honduras and Singapore – settled in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. A woman of the world, and really: what can't she do? In addition to being a seasoned office manager for instance, Anne is also a Dive master and dolphin trainer! Read more >
Jens van Kamp [MA]
Jens obtained his bachelor's degree in History and master's degree in Urban History at the University of Amsterdam. After his studies, he worked as a project manager, program maker and language teacher, before eventually starting his own language agency in 2024 with which he teaches Dutch to Nt2 students. At BOOM, he combines his passion for spatial topics with his love for text and language in his role as a copywriter / text specialist. Read more >
Ada Korteknie
Ada is junior designer at Boom Landscape and a master's student in Resilient Farming & Food Systems at the Wageningen University. She has a passion for agricultural heritage, regenerative agriculture, design and illustration. With a background in anthropology and the agricultural transition, she tries to understand the landscape in both social and ecological ways. She is fascinated by the history and future of the Dutch landscape and has the ambition to translate her knowledge and ideas into landscape design. She also loves the mountains and a nice breakfast. Read more >
LIA de Vries Gower [BSc]
Lia is an intern at BOOM Landscape. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she moved to the UK when she was 18 to do her Bachelor with Honours in Landscape Architecture at the University of Gloucestershire. She’s currently studying the EMiLA, the European Masters in Landscape Architecture program at Edinburgh University. As part of her program, she’s doing a semester exchange at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Read more >
Lola Schnitzmeier [BSc]
Lola works as an intern at BOOM Landscape. She did her bachelor in landscape architecture and environmental planning at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Currently, she’s studying the EMiLA (European Master in Landscape Architecture) for which she does a semester at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Read more >
Doeke [B.Ark]
Doeke is a Spanish site analist and the team builder at BOOM Landscape. Enforcing the team since 2019. Read more >