UN Studio: Design models

Description

In the 17 years since Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established their studio in Amsterdam, they have continually pushed the boundaries of contemporary architecture, seeking new design practices and building solutions. With major projects recently completed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Korea and the Netherlands, and teaching appointments in Germany and the United States, UNStudio is creating some of the most innovative and respected work of their generation. Their Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart cemented their reputation as one of Europe's most influential architecture practices. From a live-work house based on a Moebius strip to radical infrastructure projects, such as bridges and transportation hubs, from power stations to museums, the practice has subtly, but profoundly, reinvented a number of standard building types and proposed radical new modes of collaboration in the digital age.

Caroline Bos is co-founder of the architectural firm UNStudio. She also writes, lectures and teaches architecture at various schools. Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established the Amsterdam-based van Berkel & Bos in 1988, which became UNStudio in 1998. Van Berkel was appointed the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011.

'Brief, original and clear' - Guardian 'UNStudio's Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos save their most innovative ideas for real buildings, working intensely from the ground up to create complex interwoven spaces that mark the transition from diagram to building' - Wallpaper* 'Manages to explain their complex pursuits with unusual and often charming clarity' - Jay Merrick, Independent 'Reading Ben and Caroline's most recent book, one is forced to rethink some of the fundamental issues that await architectural theory and practice these days' - Antoine Picon, Harvard University