born 1959
Gemini building, Copenhagen: photo © adrian welch
MVRDV Architects - Background:
1984-1990 - Technical University Delft, Faculty of Construction, Engineering, Departments of Architecture and Urban Design
1991 - Winy Maas co-founded MVRDV with Jacoiv van Rijs & Natalie de Vries - the 'Office of Architecture and Urbanism' in Rotterdam. He worked with Unesco and with OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) in Rotterdam.
The design by Winy Maas for the Dutch Pavilion at Expo 2000 was a 40m high ‘Vertical Landscape'.
Winy Maas teaches and lectures at the Architectural Association, London, the Technical University, Delft, the Berlage Institute, Amsterdam, and the Academies of Architecture and Urban Planning in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
Key MVRDV Building - Gemini Housing, Denmark
Winy Maas Books:
Farmax by Winy Maas
MVRDV at VPRO
MetaCity/DataTown
Winy Maas : Books
A principal of the Rotterdam firm MVRDV, Winy Maas is trained as a landscape architect, architect, and planner. The firm's architecture has been shaped by their ongoing exploration of density and the informational processes involved in design. Their work includes urban design, civic projects and housing projects in Amsterdam, The Hague, Vienna, and Madrid.
The Dutch architect and city planner was one of the founders of the Rotterdam architectural consortium MVRDV in 1990.
Among his built works are the Dutch Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, the innovative business park Flight Forum in Eindhoven, two buildings on Borneo Sporenburg in Amsterdam, and the futuristic installation Metacity Datatown. Winy Maas is currently planning a university department building in Nijmegen, designing large buildings in Amsterdam and The Hague, handling the urban planning for a district of Almere, and preparing several publications about datascapes and manmade natural environments.
Outside the Netherlands, MVRDV is engaged in the construction of pavilions in Japan and Sweden, 100 residential units in Vienna, a large office building in Munich, and Mobility Park outside Hamburg.
Winy Maas was a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2003 and won the Amsterdam Art Prize in 2004 with his project Hagen Island in The Hague
Serpentine Pavilion London:
Project never completed
Dutch Architect in Scotland: Winy Maas
RIAS GOES DUTCH AT SCOTBUILD WITH WINY MAAS OF MVRDV
RIAS Annual Lecture 2003 - 28 Oct, SECC Glasgow
Leading Dutch architect, Winy Maas of MVRDV architects in Rotterdam will deliver this year's RIAS Annual Lecture during Scotbuild. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear one of Europe's most prolific and original architects talk about his work.
Winy Maas is one of the founders of MVRDV, an office based in Rotterdam that produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. This Dutch Architecture practice was founded in 1991 after they won the first prize in the Berlin Europan Competition. Early projects such as the Light Urbanism study for the Municipality of Rotterdam, the headquarters for Public Broadcasting Company VPRO and "WoZoCo" Housing for elderly, Amsterdam, brought MVRDV to the attention of a wide field of clients and gave them international acclaim.
MVRDV have produced buildings of all types and sizes, urban designs, publications and installations. Realised projects include the Dutch Pavilion for the World Exhibition 2000 in Hanover, Germany, an innovative business park 'Flight Forum' in Eindhoven, two Houses at Borneo Sporenburg in Amsterdam, and the futuristic installation Metacity-Datatown that has traveled around the world. Current projects in progress or on site include a University faculty in Nijmegen, large housing projects in Amsterdam and The Hague, an urban design for a part of Almere and forthcoming publications on Artificial Nature and Datascapes.
MVRDV Activities outside the Netherlands include a housing scheme for 100 units in Vienna, a 50,000m2 office development in Munich, a pavilion for an Art Triennial in Niigata, Japan, an art pavilion in Malmö, Sweden and a Mobility Park near Hamburg, Germany.
Recent project by MVRDV with Jørgensen & Wolhfeldts:
Gemini Space, Havnestad, Denmark
Pair of former seed silos on Copenhagen waterfront converted into 86
contemporary residential apartments
MVRDV House, Netherlands:
Two-family house, Utrecht 1997
Winy Maas : MVRDV
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