Wiel Arets

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wiel Arets
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	May 6, 1955(1955-05-06)
Age	69
Birthplace	Heerlen
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Limburg
Horoscope	Taurus

Wiel Arets Biography

Wiel Arets is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on May 6, 1955 in Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands. Theorist, architect Industrial designer and theorist who was the Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He founded the European- based architecture and design studio Wiel Arets Architects.

He was determined to carry on the legacy of the creative and innovative legendary architects such as He sought to carry on the innovative legacy of such legendary architects as Frank Lloyd Wright..

Wiel Arets was born on 6 May 1955 in Heerlen, Netherlands to Wiel Arets (1929) and Mia Heuts (1931). His father was a book printer and his mother was a fashion designer, both from whom he learned respect for the tradition of craft and a love of books and reading. He briefly studied engineering, and then physics, before ultimately deciding on architecture. He divides his time between Chicago, Maastricht, Berlin, Amsterdam and Zürich, living and working in each city. He is married and has two children. Arets’ work is generally characterized by a minimalist, geometric and austere approach that responds to local contingencies in a flexible way, with Arets explaining:

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. 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.

The father of his was a printer of books as was his mom, who is fashion designer. They taught him a love for reading, books and being the most excellent professional craftsman one could be in their field.

Wiel Arets Net Worth

Wiel Arets is one of the richest Architect from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wiel Arets 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended The Technical University of Eindhoven where He was influenced by the likes by Paul Valery and Giorgio Grassi. He was appointed professor of building Planning as well as Design in Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin University of the Arts.

His works was a part of that of the Euroborg Stadium in the Netherlands as well as The Utrecht University Library.

As a student Arets undertook extensive research in the archives of Peutz’s office, eventually producing the monograph ‘F.P.J Peutz Architekt 1916-1966’ (1981) and an accompanying traveling exhibition. After graduating from the TU/e in 1983 Arets travelled extensively throughout Russia, the United States and Japan. While in Japan Arets visited and interviewed several prominent architects including Fumihiko Maki, Kazuo Shinohara, Itsuko Hasegawa and Tadao Ando, later publishing these interviews and articles in the Dutch architecture magazine de Architect. Arets first garnered international architectural attention with the completion of the Maastricht Academy of Art and Architecture in 1993, described by Kenneth Frampton as:

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That’s why, when I became Dean, I changed the name to the Berlage Institute Laboratory for Architecture, I wanted to invite people to come do their research alongside students and to publish their work with the studios. The research, the production of the students, the publication, the seminars, the field trips, the lectures that were happening – all had to be part of one thing. I think laboratory simply means you have a theme, and you collectively do investigations and research. And then, at the end of the year, you have a result, which is presented in the school’s publication, HUNCH, which was originally edited by Jennifer Sigler. This was, and still is, not just a publication of only student work; rather, HUNCH was where we also published the work of guest lecturers, the important research of the trips, and everything we thought belonged to the year theme.’

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A precedent for this alabaster urbanism is Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University that utilizes an alabaster curtain wall that breaks down the boundary between the interior and exterior without transparency. Light is admitted from the outside during the day and the interior emanates a glowing light at night. The polished surface of the blank curtain wall reflects the adjacent buildings while allowing permeability. Likewise, in Arets’ work there is the stealth of a chameleon.’