Reinier de Graaf will hold a keynote speech during the symposium.
Reinier joined OMA in 1996. He is responsible for building and masterplanning projects in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, including Holland Green in London (completed 2016), the new Timmerhuis in Rotterdam (completed 2015), G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (completed 2014), De Rotterdam (completed 2013), and the Norra Tornen residential towers in Stockholm.In 2002, he co-founded AMO, the think tank of OMA, and produced The Image of Europe, an exhibition illustrating the history of the European Union.
He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof, The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession.
Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, in his book he discusses the key factors defining this complex nature of a simple profession, from suburban New York to the rubble of northern Iraq. He describes oligarchs determined to translate ambitions into concrete and steel, developers for whom architecture is mere investment, and the layers of politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architectural idea and the chance of its execution.
Sunday, 28 October 2018 from 13:00-14:30