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Winy Maas

Founding Partner, MVRDV

Search every verified Winy Maas interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV, gave a talk titled "The Art of Coincidence" in July 2026 as part of the Architects, Not Architecture series in Barcelona. During the talk, he discussed his personal and professional influences, describing his education at Delft and his early exposure to figures such as Aldo van Eyck and Rem Koolhaas. He reflected on the role of ugliness in his work, stating that "people that come from Amsterdam are normally spoiled because of the beauty" and that "ugliness is very double because you want to escape and other hand it creates a lot of liberty." He also said that "working with students is one act of optimism" and described his "spatial mission" as uniting people "by difference." In a November 2025 episode of the Super Urban Podcast, Maas discussed the expansion of architecture and urbanism into systems of data, ecology, and infrastructure. He said he was "annoyed about the kind of introspection that architects have" and argued that urbanism involves understanding what a building's position "does to the wider world." He also addressed planetary density and climate, noting that "it becomes a bit busy on this tiny planet" and that "the climatic issue becomes so too hot," suggesting that using the sky or other measures could be considered.

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“she said no no no keep on postponing that entrance to Europe because already the idea that you're going to enter stimulates developers to be better so the longer you prolong it you have more quality before you enter because after they go down.”

“Yes, I'm criticized a lot. I work here with you because there is bribery. There is according to many people there is washing laundry and especially the diaspora is like saying that to us endlessly but the shades are more gray of that and are more nuanced in this 20 years that I would like to share with you and that we can discuss also in it. How can we make that even more transparent? How can we and can you make that”

“L'industrie de la construction prend 33 % de cette carbonisation. Je crois que design, research et spéculation aide pour positionner les recherches qu'on a besoin, pour demander à nos rechercheurs ce qu'on a besoin et on doit s'organiser un petit peu plus fort pour poser cette question.”

“On a besoin de la densité pour avoir des paysages pour la nourriture, pour l'agriculture, pour la forêt, pour l'eau, pour éviter donc trop beaucoup de l'énergie pour la mobilité. Donc on a besoin encore et ça encore des 20 ans 30 ans on a besoin de ça.”

“I was shocked in Zakopane because it was so huge and it was killing the mountains basically in its architecture, it's kind of almost wild west of architecture. The law is not existing in Zakopane and they just do whatever they want, and you can see it on the streets and that there is no plan.”

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