Wiel Arets, Strange Bodies
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Wiel Arets is one of the most influential architects in Hollandtoday. His international reputation is founded on such works ashis pharmacy and apartment building in Hapert (1988-1989), the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht (1990-1993)and the headquarters for the AZL Pension Fund in Heerlen (1990-1995).Wiel Arets' architecture disrupts the smooth hermeticism of modernblock building. He juts forward building sections, gear-toothedfashion, into the existing city plan. The buildings are incisedinto the city tissue like strange bodies, causing us to questionand tug at stale conceptions of urban environment. All are characterizedby the pure severity of materials used, exacting attention todetail and a multiplicity of natural lighting effects which enfoldin the building's interior. Film-like, this book documents twelve Arets buildings and projectsfrom the 1990s with photographs by Kim Zwarts. Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus' foreword and BartLootsma's concluding essay clarify the theoretical underpinningsof Arets' architecture. Specially selected authors have been invitedto comment on individual projects.
Author: Jos Bosman
Format: Hardback, 116 pages
Published: 1996, Birkhauser Verlag AG, Switzerland
Genre: Architecture
Wiel Arets is one of the most influential architects in Hollandtoday. His international reputation is founded on such works ashis pharmacy and apartment building in Hapert (1988-1989), the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht (1990-1993)and the headquarters for the AZL Pension Fund in Heerlen (1990-1995).Wiel Arets' architecture disrupts the smooth hermeticism of modernblock building. He juts forward building sections, gear-toothedfashion, into the existing city plan. The buildings are incisedinto the city tissue like strange bodies, causing us to questionand tug at stale conceptions of urban environment. All are characterizedby the pure severity of materials used, exacting attention todetail and a multiplicity of natural lighting effects which enfoldin the building's interior. Film-like, this book documents twelve Arets buildings and projectsfrom the 1990s with photographs by Kim Zwarts. Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus' foreword and BartLootsma's concluding essay clarify the theoretical underpinningsof Arets' architecture. Specially selected authors have been invitedto comment on individual projects.