Architecture & Interiors/2017/40 min/Reel № 17.001
ByWiny Maas
Winy Maas on innovating into the future of architecture
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Winy Maas takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Netherlands in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Winy's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
The Dutch architect chats about how he is unlocking the potential of buildings in overcrowded cities.
About the speaker
Winy Maas
Amsterdam/Netherlands
Architect and urban designer Winy Maas is a co-founder of Rotterdam-based architecture studio MVRDV and The Why Factory.
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