Lunch with an Architect is intended as a forum for reflection and discussion to improve the quality of architecture in Brussels. Through 3 meetings a year, Lunch with an Architect, in cooperation with Flagey, provides the real estate world with a window on the major contemporary events in the world of architecture, the more specifically Belgian issues, and the emblematic projects under way.

MVRDV was founded in 1991 in Rotterdam at the initiative of Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries.

850 000 m2 under construction, 5000 hectares of urban planning throughout the world, a team that has gone from 60 to 120 people in one year, many prestigious awards, including more than 15 for the very emblematic Markthal in Rotterdam: this, in a nutshell, is the vertiginous progress of this Dutch firm, recognized as one of the most influential in terms of contemporary creativity.

MVRDV is developing an architectural vision for a more ambitious, more optimistic, more efficient, more ecological and more compact city. An innovative, inspired and conceptual architecture that finds its rightful place in an enthusiastic outlook for the future and assumes a role of antidote to the crisis in all sectors (retail, offices, sports, residential, major projects) and on all continents, with the same passion and a quality crowned with many prizes.

Winy Maas will take us on a worldwide tour to present various iconic projects of the firm: the Dutch pavilion at the Hanover expo, Soloda, Villa VPRO, Markthal, the Rødovre Skysvillage in Copenhagen or the Grand Paris.

…. They all attest to MVRDV’s unrelenting quests for density and diversity of functions, leading to original combinations between extremely varied elements.

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