Today our guest is architect Thomas Rau an entrepreneur, architect, innovator, inspirer and visionary based in the Netherlands.

Thomas Rau motto is 'guided by the future' – ie. By what will be needed in the future and not by what is achievable at the moment.

Thomas has been making a major contribution to the national and international discussion about sustainability, the use of renewable energy sources in architecture and the question of how to act in light of the current scarcity of raw materials for decades. With his architectural firm RAU, he has set up various innovations and new standards in the field of carbon-neutral, energy-neutral and energy-positive construction, and recently also for circular architecture.

In 2010 he founded Turntoo, to create new business models for the circular economy.

In 2017 he established Madaster Foundation to ensure that there will be no more construction waste in the future.

Thomas Rau is annually ranked high in the Sustainable 100 of the daily newspaper Trouw. In 2013 he was named Architect of the Year and received the ARC13 Oeuvre Award from the trade magazine De Architect for his efforts over the past 20 years to promote and realize sustainable architecture across the board, as well as for 'his inspiring contribution to social and architectural agenda.'
He is the author of the book Material Matters (2016) together with Sabine Oberhuber .