This website uses its own or third-party cookies. By continuing to browse, you consent to the use we make of them. If you wish, you can modify your preferences in your browser.
Ben van Berkel
AmsterdamBen van Berkel is founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio and founder of UNSense. Ben van Berkel currently teaches a studio at the Harvard Graduate School of Design titled ‘On Health II: Amsterdam Health Kitchen’. Filippo Lodi, Marisa Cortright and Mia Ming Guo from UNSKnowledge, UNStudio’s research and innovation unit, supported Ben with the article ‘Ahead of the Cloud’. UNSKnowledge provides architectural innovation and product consultancy services across the fields of computation, building technologies, and health/sustainability. Alice Haugh, futurist from UNStudio’s strategy unit, UNS Futures, supported Ben with the article ‘The City as Platform’. The unit explores the future role of the architect, developing strategic interventions at the confluence of social, technological and environmental changes, from platforms and spatial plans to installations and research programmes, for citizens, cities and companies alike.
unstudio.com3 articles by Ben van Berkel
-
The Future
Ahead of the Cloud
- 7th December 2018
-
The Future
The City as a Platform
- 11th January 2019
-
Views on Architecture
Materiality and Morality
- 2nd May 2019
Highlighted topics
- #RocaGalleryConnects
- A New Era of Health and Wellness
- An Aging World
- architecture
- book
- books
- Boundaries
- cambio climático
- Changing Direction
- cities
- climate change
- Climate Matters
- Connection in a Material World
- construction
- contests
- culture
- Defining Luxury
- design
- Design for Health
- Design for Kids
- documentary
- Education
- Enjoying Everyday Life
- environment
- European Union
- events
- eye on design
- Fit to Sports
- future
- green
- handmade
- health
- housing
- infraestructuras
- infraestructure
- innovation
- landscaping
- Luxury
- nature
- New Concepts for Housing
- New Ways of Consuming
- On the Coast
- On the Move
- One Ocean
- Our Other Senses
- Outer Space
- Places for Culture
- Plastic (In)Dependence
- policies
- product design
- project
- public space
- public spaces
- Questions&Answers
- Rebuilding Food Systems
- Renewable Energies
- Renovate/ Reuse/ Regenerate
- retail
- Rethinking Materials and Methodologies
- Rethinking Tourism
- Rethinking Spaces
- Small Disruption, Big Impact
- social
- social impact
- Subverting the Rules
- sustainability
- sustainable world
- Talk
- technology
- The Afterlife of Architecture
- The Doers
- the future
- The Future of Retail
- transport
- updated inspiration
- Urban versus Rural
- urbanism
- views on architecture
- Want More, Use Less