Associate Director and Architect, Aser Giménez-Ortega (Murcia, ES - 1979), oversees the work of design teams in MVRDV’s Interior Studio. Having joined MVRDV in 2007 after working as an architect and urban designer in Spain, Brazil, and elsewhere in the Netherlands, he has extensive experience leading projects of various scales and phases, ranging from masterplans to interior design and from concept to construction. Aser has played an integral role in the conceptualization, realization and management of Oslo’s DNB bank headquarters, as well as Shanghai’s Hongqiao Flower Building. Both of these are exemplary, green and sustainable projects realized within an expedient construction process.

Aser was also integral to the transformation of a former concrete factory into Roskilde Festival Folk High School, as well as The Vertical Village research in collaboration with The Why Factory. His design work also extends into interiors and retail with celebrated projects in both Europe and in Asia, such as façade designs for BVLGARI stores in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok and Tiffany & Co. stores in Singapore, Shanghai, Cancún, and Stuttgart. Outside his work at the office, he lectures regularly and conducts workshops with architectural students at various worldwide. His own academic background is equally international, having studied at Eindhoven Technical University, in the Netherlands and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.

“For me the quality of MVRDV projects lays in the combination of a visionary ambition with radical pragmatism. We have a sense of fun, which is rare in architecture, but without being shallow, which enables us to tackle global urgencies while maximizing playfulness in the built environment.” - Aser Giménez Ortega