GAALERIIE

Maurice Nio (1959) graduated as an architect in 1988 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. Through a mixture of mythological and pragmatic mental processes, cryptic and at the same time utterly transparent design strategies, he has realized projects at BDG Architekten Ingenieurs (1991-1996), such as the enormous waste incinerator aviTwente. At VHP stedebouwkundigen + architekten + landschapsarchitekten (1997-1999) he realized the Zuidtangent, the longest high-quality public transport line in Europe. As from January 1st, 2000 he operates from his own design studio NIO architecten and currently works on the most beautiful shopping centre in the world and the most obscure houseboat in the Netherlands. Maurice Nio gives many lectures home and abroad, but has decided he no longer wants to be a teacher on art schools, academies or universities, and would like to design books again, or make his eighth video production, or else write new articles on urban development, architecture, film, video, television, photography or dance. Achievements anyway are his books You Have the Right to Remain Silent (1998) and Unseen I Slipped Away (2004).
(excerpt from Curriculum vitae of Maurice Nio, for more information, see the studio’s internet site at: www.nio.nl)

The video was filmed in the Netherlands, on February 21 - 23, 2007.

The ideas of Maurice Nio and the associated projects are arranged almost precisely as they were mentioned during the filming in the natural order, one after the other. To retain the authenticity of the interview, the video was subjected to a minimum of editorial intervention.