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  • Covid-19 has helped kill "indiscriminate international architecture" says Reinier de Graaf

    The coronavirus pandemic has helped encourage a return to regional architectural styles, according to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf. More

    Marcus Fairs | 1 April 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Live panel discussion with OMA's Reinier de Graaf about his novel The Masterplan

    Dutch architect Reinier de Graaf talked about his latest novel The Masterplan in this live panel discussion by Dezeen for Architecture Matters. More

    Siufan Adey | 24 March 2021 | Leave a comment
  • "Hospitals in drastic, drastic need of innovation" says Reinier de Graaf

    Dutch architecture studio OMA has produced a film exploring hospital design as part of its research into its first hospital buildings. Partner at the studio Reinier de Graaf tells Dezeen how he envisions the hospital of the future. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 3 March 2021 | Leave a comment
  • "The current crisis has exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems"

    The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
  • "Too much is at stake to leave architecture to architects"

    The emotional and economic impacts of cities are closely connected, but this is lost in a proliferation of meaningless phrases like "healthy placemaking" and "human-centric design", says Reinier de Graaf. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 20 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • "Can a house be beautiful simply because of what we know, not because of what we see?"

    A simple house features on the cover of Reinier de Graaf's new book, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. In this extract, the OMA partner reveals the building's secret, politically fuelled past. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 10 November 2017 | Leave a comment
  • London's new Design Museum by John Pawson and OMA unveiled

    The Design Museum's new £83-million London home by John Pawson and OMA is set to open next week at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. More

    Jessica Mairs | 17 November 2016 | 15 comments
  • "Smart devices introduce a fundamental ambiguity over who is in charge"

    Opinion: "smart" technology promises to make our lives easier by learning what we like and giving us more of it, says Reinier de Graaf. But who will really be in control when the machines know everything about us? More

    Reinier de Graaf | 11 March 2016 | 8 comments
  • "The smart city is the ultimate free-for-all"

    Opinion: is the idea of the smart city really just another way for big businesses to make even more money, asks Reinier de Graaf, who revisits the subject against his own better judgement. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 4 December 2015 | 1 comment
  • "Academics need to break out of their loop and get back into the real world"

    Opinion: dominated by old boys who think their view is the only one that matters, architecture academia in the US has become insular and out of touch, says Reinier de Graaf, who finds a perfect illustration in a recent debate at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 4 November 2015 | 10 comments
  • "Charisma allows the architect to speak with authority, even when he has no clue"

    Opinion: charisma can't be learned, but it is often the architect's last line of defence against demanding clients and unsavoury economic realties, says Reinier de Graaf. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 29 September 2015 | 5 comments
  • "The smart city blinds us to the possibility of political action"

    Opinion: the limitless prosperity once promised by urbanisation has failed to materialise, leaving rapidly growing inequality in its wake. It will take more than some clever technology to solve the problems with the world's biggest cities, says Reinier de Graaf. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 16 July 2015 | 4 comments
  • "More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation"

    Opinion: in the noughties, architects OMA worked on a series of optimistic projects for the European Union, including a proposal for a colourful EU Barcode flag and an exhibition suggesting that a united Europe "could be fun". With the EU looking increasingly fragile, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf wonders if they should have bothered. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 11 June 2015 | 1 comment
  • "The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it"

    Opinion: the ideals of Modernism can't survive the pressures of a voracious market that views buildings purely as capital, says Reinier de Graaf. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 7 May 2015 | 10 comments
  • "Definitely not a bridge"

    Opinion: Dutch architecture firm OMA was among 74 entrants for a competition to design a new footbridge across London's River Thames – but its entry was more about making a statement than trying to win, explains practice partner Reinier de Graaf. More

    Reinier de Graaf | 17 March 2015 | 21 comments
  • At your service: 10 tips for becoming a successful urban consultant

    Opinion: OMA partner Reinier de Graaf offers his top 10 tips for architects interested in branching out into urban consultancy, including "avoid writing" and "invoice early and invoice often". More

    Reinier de Graaf | 5 February 2015 | 16 comments
  • "An underdose of utopia can be as dangerous as an overdose" - Reinier de Graaf

    In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm's fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an "inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of." More

    Amy Frearson | 12 September 2012 | 2 comments
  • Reinier de Graaf of OMA presents "architecture with a social conscience"

    Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks to Dezeen about "architecture with a degree of social conscience" by anonymous local authority architects in France and Italy in the second of three movies we filmed at the firm's Public Works exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. More

    Amy Frearson | 11 September 2012 | 3 comments
  • Reinier de Graaf on OMA, the megacity and its hinterland

    In this next movie from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the Dutch architecture studio's preoccupation with the megacity and its hinterland  - "the vacuum left in the wake of the city's expansion." He suggests that we're moving to an era of city states and this is leading to a potential new relevance for architects as civic leaders. More

    Rose Etherington | 25 October 2011 | Leave a comment
  • Reinier de Graaf on OMA’s preoccupations

    In this interview we filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the architecture firm's current preoccupations, including the city of London. More

    Rose Etherington | 19 October 2011 | Leave a comment

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