UNstudio
Phone: +31 20 570 20 40
Fax: +31 20 570 20 41
Email: info@unstudio.com
Website: https://www.unstudio.com/
Biography:
UNStudio Manifesto
This time 30 years ago, UNStudio was just a pen, a drawing board, and an idea in two young minds: Ben van Berkel, a lecturer at TU Delft, and Caroline Bos, an art historian and architectural journalist. At their kitchen table, they sketched out their first designs, and the future of UNStudio. Since then, we have not stopped moving, and we have no intention of stopping. Fast forward 30 years and we are operating from four international offices across two continents, and designing in over 30 countries.
Joining Ben and Caroline are over 200 architects and designers. Every day, these designers shape the resilient world they want to live in, focusing every inch of design around human needs: connecting fast-growing communities, housing cultural institutions, building homes, harnessing emerging technologies, educating young people, and most importantly, cultivating knowledge.
Our past, present and future is all about connecting people to places and to each other, in relevant, flexible and future-proof ways. We have built the foundations of our company along those very same future-proof principles, and with that brave, complex and exciting future in mind… and the good news is, we are just getting started.
A full-service architecture design network in six locations.
UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is an international architectural design network with six full-service international offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Dubai and Melbourne. We specialise in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development and infrastructural projects.
Over 200 staff from 27 countries are spread throughout the network in a streamlined structure that enables us to spend less time organising and more time designing and collaborating with our clients.
UNStudio’s current management team consists of Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Gerard Loozekoot, Astrid Piber and Hannes Pfau, closely supported by a strong group of long-term directors and associate directors.
Vision
Future-proofing the future
As what we design today is normally built in three to five years’ time, we’re used to working with the future in mind. However, the future is changing faster than ever before. Even the most accurate predictions can be made redundant by a sudden advance in technology. To ensure we don’t contribute to a waste of materials and investment that is no longer sustainable or appropriate in today’s world, we develop strategies that not only anticipate the future, but possible changes to that future as well.
We believe that the key to ‘future-proofing the future’ is knowledge. For the last decade, we have focused on expanding our understanding of trends and practice in architecture and beyond. Two dedicated teams research every facet of the built environment inside and outside architecture. Within our network, UNSKnowledge serve as a database for sharing and expanding the experience and skills acquired during our design projects. Externally, UNSFutures collaborates with partners including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Microsoft, Hardt Hyperloop, USM and Mitsubishi to investigate how to improve quality of life. The results contribute to our mission of producing user-centric designs that are adaptive, resilient and future-proof, whatever the future may bring.
Statutory company name
Van Berkel en Bos U.N. Studio B.V
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