MVRDV

MVRDV is a Dutch architectural studio founded in Rotterdam in 1993: the name is formed of the initials of the founding partners, Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964) and Nathalie de Vries (1965). Internationally active in all fields of architecture and urban planning, the studio has a mission for design with the involvement of clients, stakeholders and professionals, who work together right from the early stages of the creative process. The three architects combined their efforts after their success at the Berlin European Competition, and for the past two decades they have pursued an intense teaching career, giving lectures, seminars and workshops as instructors and visiting professors at numerous academies and institutes of architecture.  The project that first brought them to the world’s attention was the headquarters of NTR (Net3, 1994-1997), one of the principal Dutch radio and television ....

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