As part of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, the TBC Concept multifunctional space (Marjanishvili 7) will host a lecture by Caroline Bos, co-founder of UNStudio, on October 8, 2024, at 7 p.m.
To correct mistakes… to fix… to mend…to make good… architecture, which is forever in the process of entropy, will always require us to make things better. We can do this in so many different ways, inventing and refining tools and techniques. Besides thinking of this topic pragmatically, UNStudio also reflects on our own discipline and on the good we can do to our living world.
Caroline Bos
BA, MSc, Int (F)RIBA
Co-Founder / Principal Urban Planner UNStudio
Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, Yale School of Architecture
Caroline Bos studied History of Art at Birkbeck College of the University of London and Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. In 1988 she co- founded Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau with the architect Ben van Berkel, extending her theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture. Realized projects include the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen and the Moebius house.
In 1998 Caroline Bos co-founded UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Completed urban development projects include the restructuring of the station area of Arnhem and the mixed-use Raffles City in Hangzhou, while current projects include the Southbank by Beulah mixed-use development in Melbourne and the masterplan for a leisure island in South Korea.
Caroline Bos has taught as a guest lecturer at Princeton University, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Architecture in Arnhem. In 2012 she was awarded an Honorary Professorship at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. For the academic year 2021-2022 she was Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture. Central to her teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organization and engineering constructions. From 2020-2022 Caroline joined AM as Director AM Concepts and Supervisor Urban Planning AM.
