Architecture for the digital age
UNStudio, led by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, creates spaces that are surprisingly innovative. Their work doesn`t rehash Modernism but rather embraces the digital age via the invention of new, time-based techniques expanding the imagination, exploding the hierarchy of the design process, and encouraging the input of different disciplines. UNStudio`s architecture is the result of a design strategy that repeatedly and constantly advances in different ways via leitmotifs called "design models." The most important examples of this new kind of architecture are the New Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, which has become the town`s new landmark. Another manifest aim is to come up with fundamentally new ideas for complex infrastructure projects and to give these a contemporary structure that fosters future (including urban) development. This can bee seen, for example, at the central train station in Arnhem, at the Ponte Parodi pier in Genoa, and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture´s (CCA) prestigious "Competition for the Design of Cities." This book presents an overview of UN Studio`s work to date.
About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:
- an introduction to the life and work of the architect
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)
The author:
Trained as an architect at Yale University, Aaron Betsky is currently director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Previously, he was director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He is the author of a dozen books, writes regularly for both professional and general interest publications, and is a columnist for Deutsche Bauzeitung.
Trained as an architect at Yale University, Aaron Betsky is currently director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Previously, he was director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He is the author of a dozen books, writes regularly for both professional and general interest publications, and is a columnist for Deutsche Bauzeitung.
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