Eric Groft

Firm: Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Landscape Architecture, Washington, D.C.
Education: MLA, University of Virginia
ASLA Chapter: Potomac
Category: Works

As one of three who lead the second generation of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Eric Groft has demonstrated excellence in design through a renowned, diverse body of work. His close involvement with the plant and design masters of the New American Garden put him at the center of the firm's widely published public campuses and residential gardens of the 1980s and '90s. Since taking the design reins in 1998, his body of work serves as testimony to the emergence of a sustainable, resilient landscape aesthetic. His public and private work demonstrates that the New American Garden style works successfully across the spectrum of contemporary client demands.

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