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MVRDV's Winy Maas receives Honorary Fellowship of American Institute of Architects (Rotterdam/San Francisco, May 4 2009): Winy Maas was awarded AIA's prestigious College of Fellows Honorary Fellowship during an investiture ceremony at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California, USA, on 1st May, during the AIA National Convention. It is an honor awarded to international architects who have made significant contributions to the architectural profession, not only as an individual, but also to architecture and society on an international level. Winy Maas photo Rob t-Hart The 2009 Jury of Fellows elevated 9 international architects to Honorary Fellowship. The Honorary Fellowship is bestowed on architects of esteemed character and distinguished achievements who are neither U.S. citizens nor U.S. residents, and who do not primarily practice architecture within the domain of the Institute. Together with Winy Maas, Jo Coenen of JCCA Architects, Smiljan Radic Clarke, Chile, Bruno Gabbiani of Studio Gabbiani Associati and Manfredi Nicoletti of Studio Nicoletti, Italy, received an Honorary Fellowship. Winy Maas is one of the founding architects of Rotterdam based practice MVRDV. In the United States MVRDV works at the moment on a series of flood proof homes for the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, commissioned by the "Make it Right" Foundation, an initiative of actor Brad Pitt. The first home designed by MVRDV will start construction in 2009. A small number of AIA Honorary Fellows are selected annually by a Jury of Fellows and several practicing architects from the United States. Honorary Fellows selected in previous years include David Adjaye, UK, Stefan Behnisch, Germany, David Chipperfield, UK, and Dominique Perrault, France. Dutch Architects Practice Information Winy Maas 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

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