Winy Maas at Design Indaba 2017

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.

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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.

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Winy Maas

Amsterdam/Netherlands

Architect and urban designer Winy Maas is a co-founder of Rotterdam-based architecture studio MVRDV and The Why Factory.