Jacob van Rijs graduated from TU Delft in 1990 as an architect and urban designer.

He set up MVRDV with Winny Maas and Nathalie de Vries three years later and their young firm had a break-through project with the VPRO building in 1997. Jacob was only 33 year old.

He participated in the Archiprix Netherlands in 1990 and got a special mention.
In 2006 he was part of the Archiprix Netherlands jury and in 2016 he became the chairman of Archiprix. The 2017 Ahmedabad edition will be his first Archiprix International.

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