Covid-19 has helped kill "indiscriminate international architecture" says Reinier de Graaf The coronavirus pandemic has helped encourage a return to regional architectural styles, according to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf. The Dutch architect said Covid-related travel restrictions have hastened the demise of "indiscriminate international architecture" designed by globe-trotting starchitects. "I think there might be an increasing localism again emerging in architecture," de Graaf said. "Maybe a form of regionalism is emerging in architecture and architects generally working more locally." Above: Reinier de Graaf. Top: OMA's international projects include Prince Plaza in Shenzhen, China In the talk, de Graaf looked back over the last three decades. As globalisation took off, the period saw a handful of starchitects including OMA founder Rem Koolhaas designing buildings around the world.