The architect’s at times childlike shyness, the modest scale of his built work, and the almost total absence of texts written by him or about him, as well as of photographs of him, have fuelled the messianic aura associated with his name

Wandering through this Dutch city, a place scarred by the past yet hungry for the future. Today it is the beating heart of European architecture, and aims to overtake Amsterdam as a leading tourist destination

“For thirty years we have regarded adaptation as a compromise, but the heat is already our reality.” From urban reforestation to district cooling, the architect and urban planner explains how to rethink cities designed for a different climate