Groningen | Nathalie de Vries

She co-founded MVRDV, then spent a term as city architect of Groningen. Nathalie de Vries looks back on what that experience taught her: how commercial practice prepares you (and how it doesn't) for public work, where the two worlds genuinely differ, and the question that matters most for any city, how do you give a municipality the courage to demand the highest quality from architects instead of settling for what is offered?