Ben van Berkel (*1957) is a Dutch architect and co-founder of UNStudio, an architectural practice that he established in 1998 together with Caroline Bos. Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, where he received his AA Diploma in 1987. He has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world, including Columbia University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2018, he founded UNSense, an Arch Tech company based in Amsterdam that designs and integrates human-centric tech solutions for the built environment.

Caroline Bos (*1959) is a Dutch art historian and urban planner. She 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 the Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau and in 1998, UNStudio – both times together with the architect Ben van Berkel. 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.