Set both in contrast and in connection to its past - and in signature wall-to-wall orange monochrome - MVRDV adapted to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to generate new and provocative solutions, inviting visitors into the MVRDV Haus Berlin to take a closer look at the German projects that have helped to shape the practice.

As the office’s seminal effort, Europan 1991 winner Berlin Voids encapsulates ideas that have come to define MVRDV’s work as a practice, so the return to Berlin is both practical and symbolic. Soon the bold designs of the newly founded MVRDV office were implemented in Germany: The equally radical and impressive proposal for the Dutch pavilion at EXPO2000 became an icon on the Expo site in Hannover; a stack of landscapes.

More than 50 projects from 28 years of creative work were displayed in the Architektur Galerie Berlin, which was temporarily converted into the MVRDV Haus Berlin, with models, plans, and photographs. A team of MVRDV’s architects working on German projects transformed part of the exhibition into a real office. A ‘working office’, which gives visitors an insight into the working methods of MVRDV – which in 2020 employed 250 people across its offices in Rotterdam, Paris, Shanghai and, after the conclusion of the exhibition, also in Berlin.