Fokke Moerel

The Netherlands. Partner. Director Studio Public of MVRDV

Fokke Moerel joined MVRDV in 1998, before joining the company she worked for OMA. She leads projects in the Netherlands, Eastern Europe, the Americas and the rest of Europe. She frequently teaches and has been a tutor at the Royal Academy for the Arts in The Hague, HKU and Harvard GSD. Fokke is a creative force and leads many of MVRDV’s competition teams. To this end, the office’s interior design team is also within Studio Public, generating a strong relationship between interior and exterior public programme. A clear example of this is the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, whose construction Moerel led. In addition to this, Moerel has led award-winning designs such as the Book Mountain Library in Spijkenisse, the transformation of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Baltyk office tower, and mixed-use building Concordia Design Wroclaw in Poland.