Winy Maas
Founding Partner, Principal Architect, MVRDV
The ‘M’ of MVRDV, Founding Partner and Principal Architect Winy Maas has received international acclaim for his broad range of urban planning and building projects, across all typologies and scales. These are often self-generated, innovative, experimental, and theoretical.
Driven by this dedication to green, user-defined, sustainable cities and spaces, Maas’ leadership drives many of the office’s award-winning projects, amongst them Rotterdam’s Markthal (2014), Crystal Houses (2016) the Tianjin Binhai Library (2017), Valley (2022) and the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021). In Maas’ broad portfolio are also several masterplans, including the Left Bank in Bordeaux, and the waterfront of Oslo.
Maas leads an internationally engaged think tank at TU Delft called The Why Factory to challenge the boundaries of established standards to produce solutions that reimagine how we live, work, and play. Maas is widely published, actively engaged in the advancement of the design profession, and sits on numerous boards and juries.