This past month “Architektur und Wohnen” appointed Ben van Berkel and UNStudio ‘A&W Architect of the Year 2017’. The prize was awarded in conjunction with an exhibition ‘The Future of Work: Human Refocus’, which Van Berkel and UNStudio’s innovation and forecasting team curated. Architonic caught up with the architect of the hour to learn more about how he’s forecasting the future of work environments. <b> Congratulations to you and UNStudio on being named A&W Architect of the Year 2017. Could you say a few words about the exhibition you’ve curated, ‘The Future of Work: Human Refocus’? </b> I like this concept of “future-proofing the future”. We’re thinking about what we can do as architects to forecast the future of work environments. Today, it’s difficult to think in typologies or in buildings like office or hospital or museum alone – the whole discussion about work today is connected to the future campus. Everyone wants a campus now... I started to speculate more and more… continue
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