Ben van Berkel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben van Berkel
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1957(1957-01-25)
Age	67
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Utrecht
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ben van Berkel Biography

Ben van Berkel is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on January 25, 1957 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Ben van Berkel (born 1957) is a Dutch architect, the founder and chief architect of the architectural firm UNStudio. Through his studio, he designed among others the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Moebius House in the Netherlands as well as the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Arnhem Central Station as well as The Singapore University of Architecture and Design, Raffles City in Hangzhou as well as a host of other structures.

In 1988, he and his then-wife, Caroline Bos, set the foundation of an architectural firm in Amsterdam known as Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau that was responsible for, among other projects including The Karbouw office building as well as the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. In 1998, van Berkel and Bos relaunched their firm under the name UNStudio in which UN is the abbreviation for “United Network”.

In 1998 van Berkel and Bos relaunched their practice as UNStudio, the UN standing for “United Network”. UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure.

This book documents a number of UNStudio projects and takes critical stock of a welter of previously unpublished designs: the restructuring of the station area in Arnhem, the generating station in Innsbrück, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) laboratory in Utrecht and the competition-winning design for the Ponte Parodi in Genoa. In this new book UN Studio have draped a personal layer over the analytical project documentation. With texts by Caroline Bos, experiments in associations and out-of-the-rut architectural photography, UNStudio UNFold immerses the reader in the firm’s design process. The book appeared simultaneously with the large retrospective exhibition on the work of UNStudio from May 26 to September 29, 2002 in the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

In 1988, he along with Caroline Bos set up an architectural company in Amsterdam known as Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau which was responsible for, among other projects among others, among others, the Karbouw office building as well as The Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen as well as The Moebius house, as well as NMR facilities. NMR infrastructure in Utrecht University. University of Utrecht

Ben van Berkel Net Worth

Ben van Berkel is one of the richest Architect from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben van Berkel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ben van Berkel has received numerous personal distinctions and awards like his Eileen Gray Award (1983) and the British Council Fellowship (1986) The Charlotte Kohler Award (1991) and Membership of Honour of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (1997) The 1822-Kunstpreis in (Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart) (Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart) (2003) the Charles Jencks Award (2007) and The Honorary Fellowship AIA (2013) and Kubus Award (2016). Kubus Award (2016). Dutch designer of the year (2019).

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam as well as with the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987.

Ben van Berkel has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world. He has led Diploma Units at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (1992-1993) and the Architectural Association in London (1999). Before his role as dean at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (2001-2016), he was Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Princeton University and Harvard University. In 2011 Ben van Berkel was appointed the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Central to his teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organisation and engineering constructions.

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