IFLA FBP COMMITTEE

Hermann Georg Gunnlaugsson

FBP Committee Chair/IFLA Treasurer

landslagsarkitekt FÍLA / Landscape Architect Dipl. Ing. (FH) / City Planning MSc

Hermann graduated 1996 from Fachhochschule Weihenstephan in Germany with a Landscape Architecture degree Dipl. Ing. (FH). After 2 years working experience at the Icelandic National Planning Agency and in the office Landslag ehf he founded together with his college Ólafur Melsted the office Teiknistofan Storð ehf in 1999.

Storð landscape has been working both in landscape design and planning for municipalities and the icelandic government and private contractors in Iceland for more the 25 years. Hermann worked on Landscape projects for housing project for Búseti co-operative building association in Smiðjuholt at Einholt 6-12 and Þverholt 15-23, Keilugrandi 1-11 and Árskógar 5-7 in Reykjavík. Landscape design for  Nurshinghome Hulduhlíð in Eskifjörður in 2011 and landscape design for Sund Upper Secondary School in 2013 after a design competition.

In 2019 graduated Hermann with a MSc in City Planning from the Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI) and his thiese was a study on Kindergarten environment in city planning in Stockholm and Reykjavík. Hermann has been involved with many landscape design projects for Kindergartens, School yards and playgrounds in Iceland. He is interested in further research on design and children's environment in the future.

Experience and academy

Owner of Teiknistofan Storð ehf / Stord landscape Laugavegi 178, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland since 1999.

Adjunct Lecturer and Program Director of BSc Program in Landscape Architecture at the Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI) 2021-2022. External Lecturer August to December 2022.

Assistant Professor at AUI from 2003 to 2005.

Volunteer work

Federations of the Icelandic Landscape Architects FÍLA. President from 2013-2016 and member of FÍLA since 1997.

IFLA Europe Treasurer 2023 – 2024

Member of FBP Committee since 2014

IFLA Europe Treasurer 2020-2022.

IFLA Europe Vice-President for Professional Practice from October 2015 to October2019.

Finzi Edward Saidi

IFLA Africa Treasurer

Vincent Asselin

IFLA Americas Treasurer

Mr. Asselin is a graduate of the Université de Montréal (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1978; Master’s in applied sciences - Landscape Architecture, 1995). He is a founding member of award-winning firm WAA+ and founding member of WAA Montreal Inc, WAA International Ltd. Shanghai (WOFE of WAA Inc.) and WAA Design Sdn. Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mr. Asselin has been involved for over 40 years in the Québec and the Canadian professional associations, having served as president of both the Québec and Canada Associations of Landscape Architects, AAPQ and CSLA). A Fellow of the CSLA (FCSLA) since 1993, he has made ample contributions as a member of numerous AAPQ and CSLA committees and task forces. After serving as Vice-President for many years, Mr. Asselin was elected President of the LACF-FAPC (Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation) in June 2015. He also presently serves as the “international expert in urban planning and landscape” for the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (STC), an organizing body that advises the City of Shanghai on planning and sustainable design practices. In addition to his active practice and volunteer efforts, Mr. Asselin has been guest speaker and professor at the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Montréal. Since 2019, Mr. Asselin is the CSLA delegate to IFLA and IFLA AR treasurer.

Among his many accolades, Mr. Asselin received the Magnolia Silver Medal Award for “extraordinary contribution to the City of Shanghai”. More recently, in June of 2012, he was honoured by the Premier of Québec with the prestigious title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Québec” (Knight of the National Order of Québec, “CQ”). The Order recognizes the excellence and merit of “outstanding individuals who have helped increase Québec’s renown and left a strong, lasting mark on all or part of Québec”. This honour is the highest award the Québec Government can bestow. Recently, with Malaka Ackaoui FCSLA, received the Prix Ernest-Cormier 2020 (the highest recognition by the Government of Québec for their work in Landscape Architecture). In 2021, Malaka and Vincent also received, from Grands-Prix du-Design du Québec, the life time recognition Prix Homage 2021.

Eric Hsu

IFLA Asia-Pacific Treasurer

Eric (Chin-Chih) Hsu graduated 1994 from Feng Chia University (Master of Architecture and Urban Planning), and 1991 from Chinese Culture University (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture). He moved on in 2000 to establish the award winning firm CNHW Planning & Design Consultants in Taipei, Taiwan.

Hsu was involved in Taiwan’s Landscape Architecture scene for over three decades, and has been appointed as the chief consultant for environmental landscape for many major Taiwanese cities. His work has especially been in collaboration with the Tainan City and New Taipei City municipalities where he assisted in their recent urban planning and development endeavors.

In addition to his active practice, Hsu engaged in academia by teaching at Chinese Culture University’s landscape design department, and National Cheng Kung University’s graduate architecture department. From 2019 to 2022, he was elected as the chairman of the Taiwan Institute of Landscape Architects (TILA) and has been the IFLA APR Treasurer since 2022.

John Boon

IFLA Europe Treasurer

John Boon (Hoorn, The Netherlands, 1969) comes from a horticultural family. His ancestors were closely involved in the Flora Bovenkarspel, the world’s largest indoor flower bulb exhibition. As a child, his interest in landscape architecture was thus stimulated. John studied in Boskoop (Van Hall Larenstein, University of applied sciences, B.Sc.) and Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of the Arts, Academy of Architecture, M.LA.). Already as a student, he became board member of NVTL (The Dutch Association for Landscape Architecture). He also got involved with ELASA (European Landscape Architecture Students’ Association). In 1997 he was board member of the association that organized the ELASA-meeting in The Netherlands. In 2008, John got involved with IFLA World as board member of the association that organized the world congress in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. In his professional career John is director Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Arcadis Nederland BV. The crown on his work came in 2007 when he was appointed chief designer of the world horticultural exhibition Floriade 2012 in Venlo (The Netherlands). Since then, he has been working on prestigious projects at home and abroad. Beside of that he is commissioner at a foundation which operates three monumental cemeteries in Hilversum and consultant from the professional world at Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Science. John is married to Marieke (also active in our sector) and has two sons: Fedde (2012) and Lars (2005).