The Graham Foundation of Chicago will host a presentation and signing of Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References, a new book edited by Robert McCarter and designed by Irma Boom exploring the notion of 'A Wonderful World'. The evening will begin with a discussion and debate between Arets and... View full entry »
On March 13th, 2013 the Illinois Institute of Technology will celebrate Mies van der Rohe's 127th birthday, his influence on Chicago, and the investiture of Wiel Arets. Seventy-five years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe arrived in the United States to lead IIT's College of Architecture and... View full entry »
On March 11th, 2013 at 19:00 Wiel Arets will lecture at Unity Temple in Chicago, discussing recent works of WAA, his appointment as Dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, and 'A Wonderful World', his optimistic outlook towards the future our of continuously... View full entry »
On March 11th, 2013 at 19:00 Wiel Arets will lecture at Unity Temple in Chicago, discussing recent works of WAA, his appointment as Dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, and 'A Wonderful World', his optimistic outlook towards the future our of continuously... View full entry »
Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (Birkhäuser, 2012) explores the topic of 'A Wonderful World'–a theory brought forth by Wiel Arets –stating that the the world will become one metropolis, with individual cities functioning as neighborhoods, each with their own regional... View full entry »
Schwäbisch Media is a media company housed in one building composed of six separate glass-walled office ‘villas’ in Ravensburg, which is the economic center of Upper Swabia, Germany. The six working groups are housed in separate glass-walled office ‘villas’, whose... View full entry »
The Anne van Buerenplein serves as the lobby for AvB Tower, where a hybrid programming of shops, lobby, restaurant, offices, lecture hall, and library–where the academic dweller finds a communicative atmosphere–when fluidly linked, can be seen as an extension of the 'commuter-leisure'... View full entry »
Wiel Arets: Inspiration and Process in Architecture (Moleskine, 2012) is a new book exploring the relationships between the sources of inspiration that influence the work of Wiel Arets. Frozen thoughts, exaggerated perspectives, snapshots, and diagrammatic sketches fill the book’s pages. The... View full entry »
Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (Birkhaüser, 2012) is a new book edited by Robert McCarter and designed by Irma Boom. 'Do you read me?', the renowned Berlin book shop, will host the first presentation and signing of the publication in their 'Reading Room' located in... View full entry »
Campus Hoogvliet is a new educational and cultural area located on the southern edge of Rotterdam composed of six buildings encompassing two vocational schools, an art studio, sports building, lyceum, restaurant, retail, and housing facilities. Each building has an outdoor patio linking the... View full entry »
Located in Berlin Zehlendorf, Truman Plaza is part of a larger master plan that balances its historic context with the integration of a delicate onsite Grunewald forest. Offices, retail, health, and sports facilities shape an urban cluster around a public plaza within this leafy borough on... View full entry »
The publication is an initiative of Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) and was first published on the World Wide Web, from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on July 25th, 2012. This is version 3.0 of wielaretsarchitects.com. Initial information architecture structuring took place in April 2011; in May 2011 the... View full entry »
Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (Birkhäuser, 2012) offers a unique and unparalleled view of this internationally renowned architect. Arets’ optimistic outlook towards the future, which he calls ‘A Wonderful World: A New Map of the World’, underlies his global... View full entry »
The Anne van Buerenplein serves as the lobby for AvB Tower, where a hybrid programming of shops, lobby, restaurant, offices, lecture hall, and library–where the academic dweller finds a communicative atmosphere–when fluidly linked, can be seen as an extension of the... View full entry »
Regiocentrale Zuid is located on the river Meuse, which is a water source for drinking, industry, agriculture, wildlife, recreation, as well as inland shipping. The prominently sited building houses the control of levees on this section of the Meuse for the first time in one location, thereby... View full entry »
