Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964), Nathalie de Vries (1965)

The MVRDV Agency was created in Rotterdam in 1991. MVRDV applies and develops diversity, calling upon various skills and playing the interdisciplinary card. Once the premisses of a project are established, involving the greatest possible number of associates and data, the threesome systematizes its experimental methods and turns the design process into spatial and organizational research. The extreme diversity of these data is transcribed in a spatial matrix which overlays diagrams formed by information. These research programmes have also been collected in a publication, Farmax, which appeared in 1998. In addition to the projects Light Urbanismfor the Rotterdam City Council, and WoZoCo and Silodamin Amsterdam, MVRDV provided the groundwork for the Dutch pavilion at the 2000 World Fair in Hanover, as it did for a pavilion for the Niigata Art Triennial in Japan. The agency has also designed the Flight Forumbusiness centre in Eindhoven and the futuristic installation Metacity /Datatown which has been internationally shown. MVRDV is included on the short list for the project to renovate the Forum des Halles in Paris in 2004, and is one of five finalists in the competition for the Olympic Village at the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in New York.