MVRDV
MVRDV was founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. Now, the three founding partners lead a dynamic and optimistic team of over 300 alongside partners Frans de Witte, Fokke Moerel, Wenchian Shi, Jan Knikker, and Bertrand Schippan. Based in Rotterdam, Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, and New York, we have a global scope, providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues in all regions of the world. Our highly collaborative, research-based design method involves clients, stakeholders, and experts from a wide range of fields from early on in the creative process. The results are exemplary, outspoken projects that enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future. The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published worldwide and has received numerous international awards. More than three hundred architects, designers and urbanists develop projects in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative design process that involves rigorous technical and creative investigation. MVRDV has an in-house Climate Team, which consults with design teams across the entire company to ensure the sustainability and resilience of our work. As a group of specialists, MVRDV NEXT develops and implements computational workflows and new technologies to rationalise designs, speed up processes, and make projects more efficient and adaptable in the face of change.www.mvrdv.com
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Oct 30, 2026
Nat BarkerHOST
And those are being designed by really some of the biggest names in architecture.
Nat BarkerHOST
Bjarke Ingels Group, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid Architects, Herzog Damoran, you name it, they're all there.
Nat BarkerHOST
And they are... being given quite a lot of creative free reign, which they are really taking and running with it.
Nat BarkerHOST
So, you know, for instance, MVRDV are designing a building that looks like a giant head
Amy PeacockGUEST
in the
Nat BarkerHOST
shape of Albania's national hero.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
Smaller firms like here in Timberlake have been out in front.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
They built a tool called, it's one of my favorites, called Roast, which is essentially post-occupancy analysis on climate comfort in buildings or MVRDV.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
who has MVRDV Next, which is a team doing bespoke digital work for individual projects, then finding where they can to generalize that.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
So it's the right impulse, but it's constrained, if you will, by the fact that it's inside a professional services firm.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
And so the amount of capital that's available to do that kind of work tends to be lower than if you're in a product business where generally you have better ability to attract outside capital upfront, like venture capital.
Aditya SomanGUEST
So the university, like they did...
Aditya SomanGUEST
Like the professors, like the big-bigger names in Dutch architecture like MVRDV, UN Studio had, like, people working in their practice as professors in the architecture department.
Aditya SomanGUEST
So there were chances of collaboration.
Aditya SomanGUEST
Our department was sitting somewhere in between the architecture and the engineering department.