Wiel Arets

Wiel Arets
Born (1955-05-06) 6 May 1955 (age 69)
NationalityDutch
Alma materTU Eindhoven
OccupationArchitect
PracticeWiel Arets Architects
BuildingsMaastricht Academy of Art and Architecture
Euroborg Stadium
The Hoge Heren
Utrecht University Library

Wiel Arets (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋil ˈaːrəts], born (1955-05-06)6 May 1955) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer and the former dean of the college of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in the United States of America. Arets was previously the 'Professor of Building Planning and Design' at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Germany, and studied at the Technical University of Eindhoven, graduating in 1983. The same year later he founded Wiel Arets Architects, a multidisciplinary architecture and design studio, today with studios in Amsterdam, Maastricht, Munich, and Zürich.[1] From 1995-2002 he was the dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, where he introduced the idea of 'progressive-research' and co-founded the school's architectural journal named HUNCH.[2]

  1. ^ "Wiel Arets". www.mchmaster.com. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  2. ^ HUNCH No.4. Rotterdam: The Berlage Institute. 2001. ISBN 90-805362-4-5.

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