Caroline Bos

Co-founder & Principal Urban Planner, UNStudio, Netherlands

Caroline Bos is Co-founder and Principal Urban Planner at UNStudio based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and is a member of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for Europe.

Caroline Bos

Co-founder & Principal Urban Planner, UNStudio, Netherlands

In 1988 she co-founded the Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau with the architect Ben van Berkel, extending her theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture. In 1998 Caroline Bos co-founded UNStudio (United Net).

The firm consists of a network of experts in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Some of the major urban infrastructure that Carolin Bos worked on include the Prince Claus Bridge in Utrecht, the Netherlands and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

She 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 & Planning.

Caroline Bos studied History of Art at Birkbeck College of the University of London and Urban & Regional Planning at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht.