In 2008 Jelle Therry started working as an experienced landscape architect and project leader at West 8, after working for several Dutch and Belgian architectural offices. Therry has over fifteen years of experience designing and managing landscape projects at a variety of scales and locations. He completed his degrees in Garden and Landscape Architecture at the Erasmus School in Brussels and Landscape Architecture at the Academy of Architecture of Amsterdam. As an architect he focuses on the design and development of the public space on a variety of scales.