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Future Details of UNStudio Architectures: An Interview with Ben van Berkel
Author(s) -
Garcia Mark
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1781
Subject(s) - studio , architecture , design studio , sociology , work (physics) , order (exchange) , architectural engineering , visual arts , art history , management , computer science , history , engineering , art , business , finance , mechanical engineering , economics
In the mid 1990s, Ben van Berkel of UNStudio brought the world's attention to the plight of the architectural detail, calling for it to be redefined. Some 20 years later, guest‐editor Mark Garcia caught up with van Berkel in London and at his studio in Amsterdam, in order to explore with him fully his interest in the detail over time in both his built work and design research. As Van Berkel seeks out the production of ‘a more intense architecture’ through the development of advanced computational and organisational techniques, where does it leave the detail and non‐detail? Can a good detail still save a building?