Winy Maas

Winy Maas is a Founding Partner, Urban Planner and Landscape Architect of MVRDV, the internationally acclaimed Rotterdam-based practice he co-founded with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in 1993. Driven by a commitment to green, user-defined, and sustainable urbanism, MVRDV has earned global recognition for its innovative, experimental approach merging theory with practice across architecture, urban design, and landscape. Among the firm’s most celebrated projects are the Dutch Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover, the Markthal in Rotterdam (2014), Crystal Houses in Amsterdam (2016), the Tianjin Binhai Library (2017), Valley in Amsterdam (2022), and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) – the first publicly accessible art depot in the world. Maas is also Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Delft University of Technology, where he founded The Why Factory in 2008, a research institute dedicated to the cities of the future. In 2015, he was appointed to the Order of the Dutch Lion by the Dutch government, and in 2011 received the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur from France.

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