Wiel Arets, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wiel Arets

Dutch Architect

Date of Birth: 06-May-1955

Place of Birth: Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands

Profession: architect, urban planner, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Wiel Arets

  • Wiel Arets (Dutch pronunciation: ['?il 'a?r?ts], 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.

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