Main entry:

Arets, W. M. J.

Title & Author:

Wiel Arets / edited by Xavier Costa ; photographs by Hélène Binet.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

Description:

326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Towards an architecture of mediation / Xavier Costa -- Oneirism / Anthony Vidler -- Criticism: intensive disappearance / Greg Lynn -- Leveraging theory / Stan Allen -- Personality, craft and tradition. The architectural roots of Wiel Arets / Bart Lootsma -- Unbuilt work -- Alabaster skin / Wiel Arets -- Transition: beyond the cult of imagery, Boulevard Domberg -- Videre: theater, body and brain, thought, Delft Theater -- Body invaders -- Grid and rhizome -- Virological architecture -- Built work.

Summary:

Wiel Arets, one of the most influential architects practicing today, is renowned for the transparent clarity and rigid geometry of his work. Austere but humane, his buildings evince a forceful presence yet retain a remarkable sensitivity to their urban context. Reputed for such diverse designs as the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht, a skyscraping Amsterdam apartment tower, the corporate headquarters for the AZL Pension Fund, police stations in Boxtel and Vaals, and a series of spiritually rich residences (including his own), Arets is a rising star on the international scene and is revered in his native Holland as a modern master in the tradition of Louis I. Kahn. The first full-length monograph on his work, Wiel Arets features hundreds of stunning photographs by the acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet. It contains critical essays by architect and writer Xavier Costa; Anthony Vidler, dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York; New York-based architects and theorists Greg Lynn and Stan Allen; and Bart Lootsma, architectural critic and author of SuperDutch: New Architecture in the Netherlands. Arets's works are rooted in his interests in philosophy and his own theorization of architecture. His writings, included here as an indispensable complement to his buildings, address such topics as virology, rhizomes, and translucency. "Skins"--The sometimes transparent, sometimes opaque membranes that define buildings and cities - are at the core of his reflections on the modern city. -- from dust jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568983352
9781568983356

Subject:

Arets, W. M. J.
Arets, Wiel 1955-
Arets, Wiel.
Architektur
Bildband
Gebouwen.

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.

Added entries:

Costa, Xavier.
Binet, Hélène.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222419
Call No.: NA44.A683.2 W5 2002
Status: Available