About The Architect
Wiel Arets
(born 6 May 1955) is a Dutch architect, theorist, urbanist and industrial designer from Limburg, near the borders of Belgium and Germany. After graduating from Eindhoven University in 1983 he established Wiel Arets Architects. In 1997 the studio was moved to a site on the edge of the city center of Maastricht, the Netherlands. In 2004 a second office was opened in Amsterdam and a third office in Zürich in 2008. Bettina Kraus has been partner of Wiel Arets Architects since 2000. In 2004 Wiel Arets accepted tenure professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts.Throughout various publications, he has stated that some of his most important influences include Jean-Luc Godard, the Masai tribes people, Luis Barragan, Adalberto Librera's Villa Malaparte in Capri, bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Louis Kahn
, Mies van der Rohe
and the work of Richard Serra. read more on wiki 
Product Details
Paperback
Author: WIEL) (EL CROQUIS). Papa, Dominic , Josep Maria Montaner & Ole Bouman. Richard C. Levene & Fernando Marquez Cecilia, Editors (ARETS
Publisher: El Croquis Editorial; First Edition edition (1997)
ASIN: B001E0HSBE
