Nature is Nature
Preface
Arets & Ornament
- Allianz Headquarters
- IJhal
- Watch.It
- Blumenhaus
- The Double
- Salt.It, Pepper.It, Screw.It
- Spoon.It & Cup.It
- Europaallee Site D
- Lake Shore Drive
Nature is Nature
- Hedge House
- A’ House
- Jellyfish House
- Jellyfish Chair
- Antwerp Tower
- Academy of Art & Architecture
- AZL Pension Fund
- Stealth Furniture
An Alabaster Skin
- V’ Tower
- Tea & Coffee Towers
- Campus Hoogvliet
- H’ House
- Coffee.It
- Hot.It
- Utrecht University Library
- Il Bagno dOt
- AvB Tower
- House & Studio Arets
- Eat.It
- A Wonderful World
- Schwäbisch Media
- Four Tower Osdorp
- Mix.It
- Regiocentrale Zuid
- B’ Tower
- Siamese Chair
- Beltgens Fashion Shop
The Architecture of Freedom
- E’ Tower
- Euroborg Stadium
- Hotel van der Valk
- LRC Chair
- NAi Exhibit Comfortably Strange
- V’ House
A Virological Architecture
Talk with a Friend
Biography
Project Descriptions
Colophon
Wiel Arets launches new monograph, ‘Nature is Nature’
‘Nature is Nature’ is a monograph on the work of the esteemed architecture and design studio of Wiel Arets. This publication is a visual and textual flow that presents the studio’s output, using a series of drawings, images, diagrams, texts, theories, sketches, and citations from commentary on the work. Having been founded by the acclaimed and globally renowned intellectual, architect, and educator Wiel Arets immediately after matriculating from his study of architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands; the work of the studio is instantly recognizable to those familiar with Arets’ philosophies on the inhabitation of space, which he terms ‘interiority’. Wiel Arets, is intensely concerned with the relations between man and nature, interior and exterior, and the experience of the body moving through space within his series of preconscribed cinematographic sequences.
It is the circulation and routing in Arets’ oeuvre, and the ergonomics of interaction with his industrial designs, that is the often-overlooked though key feature that defines the work of his studio. Arets places an enormous emphasis on the interlocking of spaces within his buildings–which are intertwined and accessed through playful sets of staircases, ramps, and other ethereal experiences that aid in the navigation of the body through space. The result of this amalgamation of his signature projects is an oeuvre that is all too often left uncaptured in images. With philosophical essays that allow a look into Arets’ thoughts toward architecture; contributions by scholars that contextualize the studio’s output since its founding; and thousands of images that directly relay the sequencing of inhabiting and moving through a selection of key built works from his oeuvre–this long awaited, meticulously edited and designed monograph, is a reflection and celebration of a life spent dedicated to progressing the ideals and global conversations on architecture spearheaded by Wiel Arets.
About Wiel Arets
Wiel Arets is an architect, educator, industrial designer, theorist and urbanist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He received his Master of Science in Architecture from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1983 and, in the same year, founded the internationally recognized practice Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) with offices in Amsterdam, Maastricht, Zürich and Munich. A number of projects have been awarded a prize such as the Utrecht University Library, the Maastricht Academy of Arts, the renovation of the Schunck Glaspaleis in Heerlen, Four Towers Osdorp in Amsterdam, the Post in Maastricht, the IJhal in Amsterdam and most recently the Van der Valk Hotel Zuidas in Amsterdam. Arets is currently professor at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago of which he was previously Dean and Rowe Family Dean Endowed Chair. Prior to joining IIT, he was a professor of building planning and design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His books include STILLS, Autobiographical References, and Un-Conscious-City.
Wiel Arets launches new monograph, ‘Nature is Nature’
‘Nature is Nature’ is a monograph on the work of the esteemed architecture and design studio of Wiel Arets. This publication is a visual and textual flow that presents the studio’s output, using a series of drawings, images, diagrams, texts, theories, sketches, and citations from commentary on the work. Having been founded by the acclaimed and globally renowned intellectual, architect, and educator Wiel Arets immediately after matriculating from his study of architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands; the work of the studio is instantly recognizable to those familiar with Arets’ philosophies on the inhabitation of space, which he terms ‘interiority’. Wiel Arets, is intensely concerned with the relations between man and nature, interior and exterior, and the experience of the body moving through space within his series of preconscribed cinematographic sequences.
It is the circulation and routing in Arets’ oeuvre, and the ergonomics of interaction with his industrial designs, that is the often-overlooked though key feature that defines the work of his studio. Arets places an enormous emphasis on the interlocking of spaces within his buildings–which are intertwined and accessed through playful sets of staircases, ramps, and other ethereal experiences that aid in the navigation of the body through space. The result of this amalgamation of his signature projects is an oeuvre that is all too often left uncaptured in images. With philosophical essays that allow a look into Arets’ thoughts toward architecture; contributions by scholars that contextualize the studio’s output since its founding; and thousands of images that directly relay the sequencing of inhabiting and moving through a selection of key built works from his oeuvre–this long awaited, meticulously edited and designed monograph, is a reflection and celebration of a life spent dedicated to progressing the ideals and global conversations on architecture spearheaded by Wiel Arets.
About Wiel Arets
Wiel Arets is an architect, educator, industrial designer, theorist and urbanist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He received his Master of Science in Architecture from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1983 and, in the same year, founded the internationally recognized practice Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) with offices in Amsterdam, Maastricht, Zürich and Munich. A number of projects have been awarded a prize such as the Utrecht University Library, the Maastricht Academy of Arts, the renovation of the Schunck Glaspaleis in Heerlen, Four Towers Osdorp in Amsterdam, the Post in Maastricht, the IJhal in Amsterdam and most recently the Van der Valk Hotel Zuidas in Amsterdam. Arets is currently professor at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago of which he was previously Dean and Rowe Family Dean Endowed Chair. Prior to joining IIT, he was a professor of building planning and design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His books include STILLS, Autobiographical References, and Un-Conscious-City.
