UNStudio

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UNStudio (formerly van Berkel & Bos) is a Dutch architectural practice specializing in architecture, urban development and infrastructural projects. The practice was founded in 1998 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos. The name UNStudio stands for United Network, referring to the collaborative nature of the practice. The office comprises individuals from all over the world with backgrounds and technical training in numerous fields. UNStudio has an average work-force of 60 employees and a management team made up of two directors, one partner and two associates.

Work

Based in Amsterdam, UNStudio has worked internationally since its inception and has produced a wide range of work ranging from public buildings, infrastructure, offices, living, products, to urban masterplans.

Pivotal UNStudio projects within these fields include: the new Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart (2001-2006), the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam (1990-1996), the office complex La Defense in Almere (1999-2004), the Möbius House in the Gooi area (1993-1998) and Theatre Agora in Lelystad (2002-2007).

External links

• UNStudio Homepage
• Forbes Tastemakers 2007
• Interview with Ben van Berkel in The Leaf Review, January 2008
• Interview with Ben van Berkel on The T-Machine
• Red Dot Award
• Designpreis Silber Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
• Designboom interview
• ARCspace

Andy Warhol

Warhol, Andy

(1928–87).

American Pop artist. The son of Ruthenian immigrants, Warhol was born in Pittsburgh where he studied art at the Carnegie Institute. He moved to New York in 1949 and became a successful fashion illustrator. In 1960 he painted works inspired by popular comics in a free, somewhat Expressionist manner, but two years later, with painted and screened replica images of Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles (Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962; New York, Whitney Mus.), established his unique personal style. Warhol, the epitome of cool, took artistic impersonality to extremes, choosing banal subjects, including popular icons (The Twenty-Five Marilyns, 1962; Stockholm, Moderna Mus.), and executing them mechanistically, usually by silk screen, using assistants. Occasionally darker subjects appear, accidents and executions, like 129 DIE IN JET (1962; Cologne, Ludwig Mus.), but they are treated equally objectively. In 1963 he began film-making, progressing from the silent, virtually static Sleep (1963) to the bizarre, sexy Chelsea Girls (1966) starring the exotic coterie based on The Factory, his New York studio. Warhol's work, undemanding and instantly recognizable, was highly fashionable and he moved in starry circles, the artist as celebrity.