Studio Visit: UNStudioStudio Visit: UNStudio

Studio Visits is a series of evenings dedicated to contemporary architectural practice and its challenges and possibilities. UNStudio invites professionals, students and the broader public to cross the threshold, take a peek into the architects' workplace, and join the conversation.

This Studio Visit is fully booked.

UNStudio will be the first Amsterdam-based design firm to host a Studio Visit. Founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio practices architecture and design at all scales, from theatres to public buildings, offices, residences, exhibitions, products and urban masterplans. It operates as a full-service architecture design network, hence the recent establishment of its arch tech company UNSense, which combines design thinking and data technology.

During the Studio Visit, participants will be introduced to the studio through a series of intimate 'speed-dating' workshops in which designers share knowledge from the studio's different units -- architecture, futures, interiors, knowledge, products, and urban. Providing insights into their working process, they will share the challenges they encounter when producing designs that are adaptive, resilient and future-proof.

Over the last 30 years, UNStudio's offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Frankfurt have completed over 120 projects in Asia, Europe and North America. Acclaimed projects include: the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart; the urban restructuring of Arnhem Central Station; the Raffles City Hangzhou mixed-use development; the Singapore University of Technology and Design; Möbius House; and the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam.

Hosted and curated by an architectural studio in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, each evening will be organized around a tour, a presentation, an open conversation and a celebration. The gathering will serve as a catalyst for debate and architectural discourse; for strategizing urban policies and actions; for collaboration, forms of solidarity, and friendship as well as competition; and for - why not? - architectural gossip. Studio Visits is also a space in which to reformulate the social position of the architect in a fundamentally changed field of influence, by collectively exploring possible roles and responsibilities.

Previous Studio Visits were hosted by studios with diverse spatial configurations, forms of practice and portfolios: Powerhouse Company, Casanova+Hernandez, Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk, LOLA Landscape Architects, MVRDV, Rotterdam's Urban Development Team, Shift architecture urbanism and Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik.

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