The new guest of “T Meetings”, the second one of which was held this year under the slogan “The Transparent Face of Architecture”, was the renowned Dutch architect and urban planner Winy Maas. Under the event held as part of World Architecture Week, the founding partner of MVRDV architecture office, Winy Maas, shared his experiences in the fields like architecture, landscaping and urban planning, with designers and building industry professionals. Maas’s “What’s Next?” entitled presentation was attended by more than one thousand architects and architecture students.
The first one of the conference series was done with the participation of famed Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto on December 11, 2014. The second event took place at Harbiye Military Museum with the collaboration of Şişecam Düzcam and Arkitera Architecture Center. In his presentation entitled “What’s Next?”, Winy Maas had this to say noting that he was very happy to design and develop living spaces: “Architecture should not copy itself. Now, big metropolises started to look like each other all over the world. As architects, what falls upon us is to change and transform certain things. Business people want workplaces to facilitate their lives.
We have to give life to working areas. People don’t want to live in homes that are all alike. It’s very important to bring the beauty of nature to innovation. Therefore, it’s important also for the future that we develop buildings in harmony with nature. Especially, the architecture of the buildings must be harmonious with the setting and nature. Nowadays, people ask for life in modern buildings together but without harming the environment. Targets have to be set and fulfilled. By adding life to buildings and walls, we can use them more efficiently”.
Maas said that architects made living spaces different using knowledge and technology and gave examples of his latest period projects and experimental work. Stressing that future buildings should be transparent and breathing, Maas said: “One needs to find a solution to the problem speculating over the future. Criticism is very important in architecture. Constructive criticism adds dynamism to architecture”.
Renowned architect Winy Maas accomplishing works in different fields of design like landscaping, urban planning, product and display design in addition to architecture; describes the design principle of MVRDV architecture office where he is a partner, as creating a spatial innovation to handle social and environmental integrity in architecture, urban planning and landscape design. Among the standing out projects of the office where Maas is a partner are Rotterdam Market Hall, Paris Pushed Slab, Schijndell Glass Farm and Bordeaux Bastide Niel Master Plan.
