Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel (born January 25, 1957 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch architect . Together with Caroline Bos, he runs the architecture office UNStudio in Amsterdam .

Life

Ben van Berkel graduated from the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academie and 1987 Architectural Association (AA) , London . He initially worked in the offices of Zaha Hadid (London) and Santiago Calatrava (Zurich). In 1988 he founded van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau with Caroline Bos in Amsterdam .

In 1998 van Berkel and Bos founded the design office UNStudio in addition to their architectural office , where UN stands for united net .

Van Berkel taught as visiting professor at Columbia University in New York in 1994 , at Harvard , and from 1996 to 1999 at the Architectural Association, London. In 2000, joined Caroline Bos as a visiting professor at Princeton University .

Until 2016, Professor Ben van Berkel led the architecture class (Advanced Architectural Design) at the State University of Fine Arts (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main .

He designed a teapot and a truffle slicer for Alberto Alessi .

Awards

1997 honorary member of the Association of German Architects
2003 1822 Art Prize , Frankfurt am Main
2006 Binding Culture Prize , Frankfurt am Main

Projects (selection)

Company building Amersfoort (1990–1991)
Erasmus Bridge Rotterdam (1990–1995)
Moebius House in Het Gooi (1993–1995)
Cafe Aedes, Hackesche Höfe Berlin (1994)
Arnhem Central Station (1997-2015)
Shopping center: East Side Mall Berlin (2018)

Movie

My city - Amsterdam. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 52:40 min., Directors: Mic Thiemann, Christopher Kappelhoff-Wulff, production: BuiltBy.TV, WDR , arte , series: Meine Stadt, first broadcast: September 2, 2012, film information from arte, Preview of BuiltBy.TV.
Ben van Berkel shows his Austrian colleague Jakob Dunkl architecturally interesting buildings in Amsterdam.

Web links

Commons : Ben van Berkel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography (s) on the homepage of UNStudio
Ben van Berkel. In: arch INFORM .
Interview with Ben van Berkel (en.) About - What is architecture?
Interview with Ben van Berkel in designboom (en.)
Literature by and about Ben van Berkel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Interview with Florian Siebeck, in: FAS No. 1, January 7, 2018, p. 46.

personal data
SURNAME	Berkel, Ben van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch architect
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht , Netherlands

[1] Interview with Florian Siebeck, in: FAS No. 1, January 7, 2018, p. 46.