In the seventeen years since Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established their studio in Amsterdam, they have continually pushed the boundaries of contemporary architecture, seeking new design practices and building solutions. The work that has resulted from these explorations fuses a sophisticated understanding of digital design with a formal and material experimentation that has ensured their work reaches far beyond the 'supermodernism' associated with architectural practices of the Netherlands.

Fluidity and flexibility, often underpinned by diagrammatic method, are hallmarks of UN Studio's buildings and projects. From a live-work house based on a Mobius strip to radical infrastructure projects, such as bridges and transportation hubs, from power stations to museums, the practice has subtly,but profoundly, reinvented a number of standard building types and proposed radical new modes of collaboration in the digital age.

This is the complete monograph of UN Studio's output. The book beginswith an essay that examines how architects can stop the proliferation of wilfuldesign by ceasing to design projects, and instead develop 'design models' thatcan be transferred from one project to another. In the introduction, these fivedesign models, or conceptual methods, serve as the point of departure fortheir broad array of project types.

The book's main section, divided by design model, presents 34concepts and buildings, presented in detail from the initial, generativediagram, through the digital-modelling process, to constructionand final outcome. Bookending the projects is a second essay,'After Image', which contemplates the role and representationof contemporary architecture in today's visual and informationculture, and offers new ways to generate interesting andmeaningful images for architecture.