MVRDV is a
Rotterdam
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,
Netherlands
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-based
architecture
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and
urban design
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practice founded in 1993, with additional offices in Berlin, New York, Paris, and Shanghai. It is currently regarded as one of the world's finest architecture firms. MVRDV is an acronym of the founding members' surnames:
Winy Maas,
Jacob van Rijs
Jacob van Rijs Ir. FRIBA (Amsterdam, 1964) is a Dutch architect, urban planner and one of MVRDV’s three founding partners. Besides giving lectures worldwide van Rijs is also professor Entwerfen und Baukonstruktion at Technische Universität Ber ...
, and
Nathalie de Vries.
History
Maas and Van Rijs worked at
OMA, De Vries at
Mecanoo
Mecanoo is an architecture firm based in Delft, Netherlands. Mecanoo was founded in 1984 by Francine Houben, Henk Döll, Roelf Steenhuis, Erick van Egeraat and Chris de Weijer.
Foundation
Houben, Döll and Steenhuis won a competition to de ...
before starting MVRDV.
The trio studied architecture together at the
Delft University of Technology
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
,
Netherlands
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and won the "
Europan 2" competition with their project "Berlinvoids" in 1991 before founding MVRDV two years later.
The situation for starting a new office in the Netherlands was favourable – government support for young architects means all three received a grant to help start their architectural practice.
It took some time for the company to get going, working without a fixed office until the firm's first major commission arrived. This was the new offices for the public broadcasting corporation
VPRO
The VPRO (stylized vpro; originally an acronym for ''Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep'', lit. 'Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcaster', nowadays known as ''Omroepvereniging VPRO'') is a Netherlands, Dutch Public broadcasting, public broadca ...
in Hilversum, the Netherlands (1993–1997). Other early built works include the Wozoco housing in Amsterdam (1994–1997) and the Dutch Pavilion at the
Hannover World Exhibition Expo 2000 (1997–2000). These were followed by a business park 'Flight Forum' in
Eindhoven
Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...
,
Gemini Residence silo conversion in Copenhagen, the Silodam Housing complex in Amsterdam, the Matsudai Cultural Centre in Japan, Unterföhring office campus near Munich, the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam, an urban plan and housing in The Hague Ypenburg, the rooftop – housing extension Didden Village in Rotterdam, the cultural Centre
De Effenaar in Eindhoven, the boutique shopping building Gyre in Tokyo, part of Veldhoven's Maxima Medical Centre, and the iconic Mirador housing estate in Madrid.
Recently completed projects include a public library in
Spijkenisse
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, the Netherlands, a shopping center in
Schijndel, the Netherlands, a bank headquarters in
Oslo
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, Norway, and most recently a public market hall, combining housing and shopping within the shape of a monumental arch, in
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
.
Current projects in progress or on site include various housing projects in the Netherlands, China, France, India, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, a sustainable office building in Paris, a central business district in
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
, an office tower in
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
, a museum of rock music and a community cultural centre in
Roskilde
Roskilde ( , ) is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 53,354 (), the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative ...
and
Frederiksberg
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respectively, large scale urban masterplans in
Oslo
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,
Bordeaux
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and
Caen
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, an entire new eco-city in
Logrono, Spain, a structural development vision for Dutch New Town
Almere
Almere () is a Planned community, planned List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer fro ...
, the masterplan for the
Floriade (Netherlands) Horticultural Expo 2022, also in Almere, and a research masterplan into the future of greater Paris which was commissioned by French president
Nicolas Sarkozy
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and the mayor of
Paris
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Bertrand Delanoë.
MVRDV also maintains a research-oriented project called "The Why Factory", which the company describes as an "independent think-tank and research institute". It is run together with the
Delft University of Technology
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
.
Influences
In a 2010 interview with
Designboom
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History
Launched in 1999, the publication was the first web magazin ...
,
Winy Maas cited
Rem Koolhaas as one of the most important people that he had worked with and for, describing parts of MVRDV's work as intellectual responses to Koolhaas's questions. The architect and critic
Rafael Moneo has noted the common featured between OMA and MVRDV, starting with the positioning of the architect in their draft process, with projects treated as collaborative efforts and the architect acting as a catalyst, An article in
El Croquis further argued that "if the notion of creation is still present in their discourse, it is more than a co-creation or synergy between all the parties than as the exclusive vision or synthesis of an architect."
The concept of densification - where the population density or building density is increased via taller buildings or adding more housing units - is a topic Koolhaas focused heavily on in his book "Delirious New York". Reflection on the notion of densification also comprises a significant part of MVRDV's research, for instance in their publications ''FARMAX'' and ''KM3'', with Maas further noting that "... proximity makes sense. That's a fundamental part of our culture for many of us." In El Croquis, architect Fernando Márquez Cecilia notes that "through these conceptual overlaps, the projects of the two offices show in some cases even strong formal accordance, as in the case of the VPRO Building and the Educatorium".
Maas has also noted that the
Club of Rome
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warnings made in the 1960s over the dangers of global growth, which Maas heard as a ten-year old, contributed to his decision to study landscape architecture and urban planning. This continue to inform his ideas – solutions to what is now acknowledged as the climate crisis must be sought on a large scale.
Nathalie de Vries cites
De Stijl
De Stijl (, ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, Jacobus Oud, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren, North Holland, Laren (Piet Mo ...
, the Dutch museum director Franks Haks, and
Mecanoo
Mecanoo is an architecture firm based in Delft, Netherlands. Mecanoo was founded in 1984 by Francine Houben, Henk Döll, Roelf Steenhuis, Erick van Egeraat and Chris de Weijer.
Foundation
Houben, Döll and Steenhuis won a competition to de ...
´s housing and neighbourhood projects as influences. Mecanoo would be where de Vries began her professional career.
Architectural language
The variety of design choices in their buildings demonstrate that MVRDV wishes not to develop a specific style of architecture, but to provide and develop different methods in designing architecture and urban space. Projects are developed by interdisciplinary teams that test different possibilities rather than designing "top-down". Over the years, this strategy led to the development of an architectural language that helps in explaining design choices to others.
The exhibition ''"Architecture speaks" – The Language of MVRDV'' was an opportunity for ''MVRDV'' to present four conceptual themes to describe their work. The
exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within a cultural or educational setting such as a museum, art gallery, park, library, exhibiti ...
was shown in the "aut", an architectural centre in the
Tyrol
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region of
Innsbruck
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,
Austria
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and was curated by
Natalie de Vries.
* "stack": This refers to the ever growing demand in space as well as the approach to stack and connect functions vertically, to create a three-dimensional space. This method came into use for the "Berlinvoids" design, where the office saw an opportunity to renew the standard way to deal with
densification.
* "pixel": The term "pixel" deals with the boundaries of space and provides the smallest unit in an agglomeration of units. It was initially developed as a measuring tool for the offices software "The Function mixer" and transformed into a flexible form that is adapted to the needs of its function.
* "village": With the manifestation of the term village, MVRDV takes the next step into not only wanting to develop the immediate building but also the context. They use the "village" to be an example for ideal homes and neighbourhoods that can work as a basis for "healthy community-making"(DeVries, 2019).
* "activator": Spaces that engage social interaction are referred to as "activators". These projects provide structures that exceed habitable use, being descriptive of the social interaction process rather than the formalistic character of the structure itself.
Notable works
Valley,
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands
Winner of the Emporis Skyscraper Award, Valley is a mixed-use, semi-publicly accessible development in the Zuidas business district of Amsterdam. Comprising three towers of heights ranging from 67 to 100 metres tall, it combines offices, shops, catering, cultural facilities, and apartments in one building. Described as “an oasis in a business district dominated by regular office buildings” a green valley winds between the fourth and fifth floors, wholly accessible via two stone external staircases.
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen,
Rotterdam
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, Netherlands
MVRDV won the design competition for the depot in 2013, for which the assignment was to offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the museum world and make the whole art collection accessible to the public. The world’s first publicly accessible art storage facility and a 2023 Architectural Digest “Work of Wonder”, the depot displays more than 150,000 works of art and design that the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen previously had no room to exhibit. In addition to the significant amount of storage space required for art and design works, the depot comprises exhibition halls, a rooftop garden, and a restaurant.
Tianjin Binhai Library,
Tianjin
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, China
Nicknamed “The Eye”, the
Tianjin Binhai Library is part of the Binhai Cultural Center, and MVRDV's second complered project in the Chinese municipality. A five-level library possessing a total floor space of 33,700 square metres, it features floor-to-ceiling terraced bookshelves able to hold 1.2 million books, with a 110-capacity auditorium set in a central sphere. According to
Newsweek
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’s culture writer, Anna Menta, the library is “breathtaking” and “every book lover’s dream.” This was MVRDV's fastest realised project to date, taking only three years from the first sketch to the opening.
Current Projects
As of 2023, MVRDV's current projects include:
Europe
Americas
Asia
Gallery
File:Inside Villa VPRO.jpg, Villa VPRO, Hilversum
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, Netherlands, MVRDV
File:Mvrdv silodam.jpg, Silodam Housing complex, Amsterdam
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, Netherlands, MVRDV
File:Expo Pavillon Holland.jpg, Dutch Pavilion at Expo 2000, Hannover
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, Germany, MVRDV
File:Edificio Celosía (Madrid) 01.jpg, Edificio Celosía, Madrid
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, Spain, MVRDV
File:Gemini Residence from west.JPG, Gemini Residence, Islands Brygge
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, Copenhagen
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, Denmark, MVRDV
File:Gyre_Omotesando_2.jpg, "The Gyre", Omotesandō Avenue, Tokyo
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, Japan, MVRDV
File:Markthal Rotterdam bij avond.jpg, Market Hall Rotterdam, Rotterdam
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, Netherlands, MVRDV
Awards
MVRDV has won awards across multiple architectural categories including housing, public buildings, commercial buildings, mixed-used developments, interior design, exterior design, and landscape architecture.
Notable accolades include the
RIBA House of the Year (Public Vote), European Museum of the Year Jury Prize, Emporis Skyscraper Award, ArchDaily Building of the Year, Prix Versailles, International Architecture Award, Architizer A+ Award, and Red Dot Design Award. MVRDV's work has been exhibited in multiple locations including Gallery MA, Tokyo; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; ArchiLib Gallery, Paris;, Kyoto Global Design Awards – Environmental Design category
and Architektur Galerie, Berlin.
Criticism
MVRDV's rise to that of a significant force within the architecture industry has been accompanied by critical voices. The
Markthal in
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
, despite winning several awards, did not
meet with universal acclaim. Rob Bevan of ''
Architectural Review'' described it as being part of an overall mistaken preference in Rotterdam for a "stodgy diet of instant icons" and indicative of "noodle-headed re-shaping and architectural gymnastics", the implication being that more modest designs as part of a more integrated city-wide planning would create more successful buildings, although Bevan tempered his criticism in acknowledging that "There is curiosity value then in MVRDV’s immovable feast with its seemingly calculated ''jolie laide'' proportions and it has brought vigour to a corner of the city demanding it".
The urban and architectural geographer Mark Minkjan expressed a belief that contemporary architects often serve as makeup artists of sales pitches, or producers of visually pleasing "eye candies" using MVRDV's "Valley" to illustrate his view.
As a case study, he made a specific critique of the renderings of Valley, an MVRDV project located in an emerging business district of Amsterdam and subsequently named the world's best skyscraper in the 2021 Emporis Awards. Minkjan saw the renderings as cosmetic, deceptive images that hid the environmental, financial challenges that would occur during and after the building's construction, saying "In reality ... the building will never turn out like the rendering".
Furthermore, despite "Valley's" commercial spaces receiving
BREEAM "Excellent" certification, the building's energy performance being 30% better than local regulations require, and the residential area scoring 8 out of 10 on the GPR Building Scale, Minkjan nonetheless accuses the office of
greenwashing
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, stating his view that the unrealistic illustration of rooftop gardens and terraces, which ignore the effects of smog, wind, poor soil and changing seasons, deflect attention from the sizeable emissions of the building construction.
Minkjan's criticism notwithstanding, "Valley" has been positively received, and garden designer
Piet Oudolf worked with MVRDV on the building, using around 13,500 plants in 370 planting areas over 27 floors.
MVRDV's design of the
Marble Arch Mound in London was not well received.
Critics named the creation of an artificial hill around and over London's Marble Arch to be pointless, a massive waste of time and material,
a pile of rubble,
and London's worst attraction.
MVRDV acknowledged the poor architectural result but also pointed to
Westminster City Council
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for watering down their design, excluding the studio from overseeing the construction, and ignoring their advice.
Research
The Why Factory
The Why Factory is a global
think tank
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and
research institute
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at
Delft University of Technology
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
, led by professor
Winy Maas.
Its
research
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revolves around analyzing
urban developments and providing
scenario
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s for future
cities
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and
societies
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.
There is particular focus on opening engaging the public in architectural debate through
exhibition
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s, workshops,
publication
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s and
panel discussion
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s.
Founded in 2007, the think tank also provides an experimental outlook on the
urban landscape
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of the future by exploring imaginary narratives and their interlinked new
social context
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s. To develop scenarios further, the Why Factory also uses computational design tools for analyzing and generating these concepts.
Some of research projects of MVRDV.
Publications
FARMAX (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1999)Metacity/Datatown (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1999)Spacefighter The evolutionary city game (Actar, Barcelona, 2005)KM3 Excursions on Capacities (Actar, Barcelona, 2006)Skycar City (Actar, Barcelona, 2008)*
ttp://www.naibooksellers.nl/boekenberg-spijkenisse-biografie-van-een-gebouw.html Book Mountain – Biography of a Building (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2013)br>
MVRDV Buildings (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2015)MVRDV Dream Works (Arquitectura Viva, Spain, 2016)MVRDV: Investigations and new creative visions of the Urban Landscape (ARCS Media Group – Corriere della Sera, Italy, 2017)Rooftop Catalogue (Rotterdamse Dakendagen, Rotterdam, 2021)Attitudes: MVRDV (Maas Lawrence, Rotterdam, 2024)
Further reading
*Farmax: Excursions on Density. 010 Publishers, 2006.
*KM3: Excursions on Capacities. Actar, 1999.
*Reading MVRDV. NAi Publishers, 2003.
*Gonzalo Herrero Delicado
– Galinsky, 2006
*Frey, Darcy �
The New York Times Magazine, 8 June 2008
* Julian Faulhaber �
The New York Times, 6 June 2008
* Douglas Heingarter �
The New York Times, 6 October 2014
* Anna Fifield �
The Washington Post, 14 May 2017
* Andrew Dickson �
"The museum of everything: do you have time to look at 150,000 exhibits?" The Guardian, 21 September 2020
* Norman Miller �
"The Dutch city testing the future of urban life" BBC, 5 April 2022
* Andrew Higgins �
The New York Times, 19 February 2023
* Jacqui Palumbo �
CNN, 11 January 2024
References
External links
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Archicentral.com: MVRDV projectsDanda.be: MVRDV projects photo galleryArchello.com: MVRDV publications
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