RAAAF operates at the crossroads of visual art, architecture and philosophy. RAAAF makes location and context specific work, which derives from the respective backgrounds of the founding partners. Through a unique working method based on multidisciplinary research with scientists and other specialists, RAAAF’s real-life thinking models link local qualities with long-term strategies.
"Our interventions are the result of an independent attitude and research agenda, starting from our own fascinations while confronting them with urgent societal issues. To use the words of Lebbeus Woods, what interests us is "what the world would be like if we were free from conventional limits and show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules." Showing these visions is the aim of each project."
RAAAF’s work has been published world-wide and exhibited at leading art and architecture biennales such as those of São Paulo, Istanbul, Chicago and Venice. The studio has won several prestigious awards, including the Prix de Rome Architecture 2006, the Architectural Review Award 2013 amongst others.
RAAAF earned the title of New Radical and Dutch Architect of the Year. The various juries emphasize the ability of the studio to cross and stretch the disciplinary borders of architecture, philosophy and art.