Robert Broesi (1969), Pieter Jannink (1971), Wouter Veldhuis (1971)

MUST is a laboratory for urbanism based in Amsterdam since 1998, which combines design and research. Among its founder members are Robert Broesi (urbanist), Pieter Jannink (urbanist) and Wouter Veldhuis (architect). All three teach at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and as guest lecturers at several Universities of Architecture abroad. At the present time, MUST has an international team made up of five associates (two urbanists, two architects and one artist designer), which operates all over Europe. Their brief covers the whole of Europe, with a preference for issues involving urban transformations. Akin to a development strategy, their leitmotiv is situated in what they call “coalition-urbanism”, in other words, a definition of the challenges shared by different territories during a planning process. Within a context of globalization which can be perceived through an economic, social and legislative levelling, MUST explores the future developments of European mapping. Through this approach, the group attempts to gauge the complexity and instability of a territory where the borders and boundaries are being endlessly redefined throughout its history. This is a phenomenon which, according to MUST, will become increasingly recurrent in the future. In his view, growth of mobility, changes in production methods, and the open, free market between member states are thoroughly topical realities which are modifying the physical development of a landscape.