Wiel Arets
Wiel Arets (, born ) 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. 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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