Thursday, September 09, 2010
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Event Detail
| Date | Tuesday 09 December 2008 |
| From 08h45 till 10h00 | |
| Event Type | Breakfast talk |
| Organised by | FCCS / DutchCham / BLBG |
| Topic | Singapore: Leader or follower in landscape architecture & spatial planning ? |
| Location | Suntec Singapore, the Convention Centre MeetingRoom 208, Level 2 |
| Invite | Official Invitation |
| Description | The French and Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Singapore and the Belgian Luxembourg business group are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Mr. Winy Maas, an internationally respected architect, landscape architect and urban planner. Winy Maas is one of the co-founding directors of MVRDV, an award winning architectural firm based in Rotterdam. MVRDV is renowned for its radical methodical research on density and public realms and engagement with global ecological issues. Early projects such as the headquarters for the Public Broadcasting Company VPRO and the WoZoCo apartment building in Amsterdam gave them international claim. In 2008, the French president Sarkozy and the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë commissioned MVRDV, amongst other renowned architects, to develop a masterplan for Greater Paris. Winy Maas was recently installed by Almere, Netherlands, to develop a vision for the future of the Dutch boom town. Winy Maas lectures and teaches, among other things, throughout the world and often takes part in international juries. He is a visiting professor of architectural design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is professor in architecture and urban design at the faculty of architecture at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He has also lectured at the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and Ohio State and Yale Universities in the USA. He is also Director of the Why Factory, a new and upcoming research institute for the future city he founded in 2008 in connection with the Delft School of Design. |
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