Wiel Arets 

• 2002 
• Arets, Wiel 

  + 1

  Costa, Xavier
• Miscellaneous 
• Princeton Architectural Press 

6098917

Books

Wiel Arets

Arets, Wiel, Costa, Xavier

Binet, Hélene, Zarts, Kim

2002

First edition

328

23.6 x 29.2 cm

The transparent clarity and rigid geometric forms of Wiel Arets have made him one of the most influential architects of modern times. A theorist as well as a designer, he is revered in his native Holland as a modern master in the tradition of Louis I. Kahn. Arets's works are stern but humane, powerful but not overbearing, and attentive to their urban context. Unlike other designers who create architecture of understated simplicity, Arets is concerned with "skins" - the sometimes transparent, sometimes opaque membranes that define buildings and cities. His reputation is founded on such works as the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht (1990-93) and the headquarters for the AZL Pension Fund in Heerlen (1990-95), along with several newer projects, which are published here.