UN STUDIO

The Mercedes Benz Museum, designed by the Amsterdam based UN Studio, cements the rise of one of Europe's most influential architectural practices. In just a little over fifteen years, UN Studio has established itself as one of the few avant-garde digital practices that is able to complete large-scale projects across the globe. From a live-work house based on a Möbius strip to a radical infrastructure projects, from power stations to museums, the practice has subtly, but profoundly, reinvented a number of standard building types. This is the complete monograph of UN Studio's output. Thirty-three buildings and projects are presented in unprecedented detail, from initial, generative diagrams through the digital modelling process, to the construction and final outcome.Written by the studio's principals, Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos, it throughly documents complex projects and contains a myriad "how-tos" and tricks of the trade, making it an essential read for design professionals and architecture students everywhere.