EL CROQUIS, number 173, a monograph on MVRDV, is the third monograph produced by the publisher on this office established in Rotterdam. The current publication collects MVRDV's most significant works from 2003 to the present −presented in full with several construction plans, and a profusion of photographs and sketches. The monograph is prefaced by an interview with MVRDV by the architects Charles Bessard and Nanne de Ru, and a critical essay on their work by Aaron Betsky.
Among the buildings and projects featured the most remarkable ones are the Gemini Residences, the Parkrand apartment building in Rotterdam, the rooftop house extension Didden Village in Rotterdam, the Balancing Barn holiday house in Thorington, the Book Mountain in Spijkenisse, the mixed-use centre Glass Farm in Schijndel and the shopping centre Chungha Building in Gangnam.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Biography
Interview with MVRDV by Charles Bessard & Nanne de Ru
Towards the Two Millimeter Icon: MVRDV Assembles by Aaron Betsky
Projects
- Matsudai Cultural Village Centre
- Market Hall- Mixed-Use Development
- City Sofa - Busan Cinema Complex
- Frøsilo - Gemini Residences
- Barcode House
- Chengdu Centre for the Arts
- Parkrand - Apartment building
- Didden Village - Rooftop House Extension, Rotterdam
- Sky Village Rødovre - Mixed-Use Tower
- Celosia - Social Housing Apartments
- Balancing Barn - Holiday House in Thorington
- China Comic and Animation Museum
- ROCKmagneten - Danish Rock Museum
- Sky Village, Living in The Cloud - Mixed-Use Towers in Seoul
- Baltyk Tower
- Freeland - Almere Oosterwold
- Book Mountain - Public Library in Spijkenisse
- DNB Headquarters, Central Building
- Glass Farm - Mixed-Use Centre, Schijndel
- Chungha Building - Gangnam Shopping Centre
- Urban Hybrid, Emmen
- Folie Richter - Vertical Village, Montpellier
