Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel (*1957) is a Dutch architect and co-founder of UNStudio, an architectural practice that he established in 1998 together with Caroline Bos. Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, where he received his AA Diploma in 1987. He has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world, including Columbia University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2018, he founded UNSense, an Arch Tech company based in Amsterdam that designs and integrates human-centric tech solutions for the built environment.