On the occasion of the second opening of Public Works, Reinier de Graaf lectures on the phenomenon of Civil Servant Architects in the 1960s and 1970s in Western Europe.  The Exhibition first appeared in Venice at the 13th Architecture Biennale, and in Spring of 2013 was re-sited to ST AGNES in Berlin, a former Church which features as one of the buildings in the exhibition itself. Watch the full lecture here.

OMA-partner Reinier de Graaf gave a lecture at the Berlage Institute on Megalopoli(tic)s.

De Graaf started by arguing that thinking big is compulsory when thinking about 'the green cause'. One needs to think in a global context, like Buckminster Fuller did with his Spaceship Earth (1968) and Doxiades' global Ecumenopolis city (1967). By showing different mappings of urban growth, De Graaf showed that the Ecumenoplis is, in fact, not that far way. These developments take place, not in the old Western metropolitan areas, but in the megacities of the South and(Far-)East.

Global exchange of energy, waste, materials and the production of renewables. Solar collectors in the desert and offshore wind farms to generate the global energy demand in a sustainable way. OMA's Reinier de Graaf shows how our world can be made sustainable.

OMA partner de Graaf speaks at the Urban Age Hong Kong Conference on the rapid growth of cities in the developing world and the shift of power in urbanization from the public to the private sector. De Graaf asks if we are now in need of a new form of planning: megalopolitics.