In 1999 UNStudio detached itself from Van Berkel & Bos. New visions, new ‘styles’, new skills; these were all needed to realize the new type of project that we had seen ourselves increasingly confronted with. This project entailed a non-hierarchical, generative and integral design process, organized in a contemporary way, and using technologies that allow for maximum exchange. New people entered the practice; the craftsmen found themselves working next to Columbia and Harvard postgrads. Consultants from the UK and Germany were hired alongside local firms. The internal organization was re-designed as UNStudio set out to equally excel at business, art and design. .UNStudio quickly became bigger, one longstanding collaborator became associates, then partner: Harm Wassink as strategic director responsible for the internal organization. Two more associates, Gerard Loozekoot and Astrid Piber, were appointed in 2005.