Wiel Arets

Office

3410 S. State Street

Phone 312.567.3263
Fax 312.567.5820
wiel.arets@iit.edu
wielaretsarchitects.com

Expertise

Professor Arets is an internationally renowned architect and educator. He graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1983, and established his own office that same year, which later expanded throughout Europe. His writings and projects are regularly published globally. Since 1989 he has continually taught at the world’s most distinguished universities. From 1995 to 2001 he was Dean of the Berlage in Rotterdam, and from 2012-2017 was Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. An eminent critic, Professor Arets was the President of the Jury for the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Chair of the Jury for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award, and in 2014 he established, together with IIT Architecture, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), of which he is President of the Board.

Education

B. Arch., Eindhoven University of Technology

Teaching Experience

Dean of the College of Architecture, IIT, Chicago USA, 2012-2017

John and Jeanne Rowe Chair of Architecture, IIT, Chicago USA, 2012-2017

Professor of Building Planning and Design, UdK, Berlin DE, 2004–2012

Advisory Board of Princeton University, Princeton USA, 2004-2012

Guest Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ES, 2006-2012

Visiting Professor, Washington University, St. Louis USA, 2010

Guest Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen DE, 2005

Mies van der Rohe Chair, ETSA Barcelona ES, 2000

Dean of the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, 1995-2002

Berlage Chair of Architecture, TU Delft NL, 1995-2002

Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York USA, 1991-1995

Guest Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen DK, 1994

Guest Professor, University of the Applied Arts, Vienna AT, 1994

Visiting Professor, Cooper Union, New York USA, 1991-1992

Visiting Professor, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, 1991-1994

Diploma Unit One Master, Architectural Association, London UK, 1988-1992

Docent Academie voor Bouwkunst, Amsterdam and Rotterdam NL, 1986-1989

Professional Experience

Wiel Arets Architects, Amsterdam and Maastricht, the Netherlands and Zürich, Switzerland, 1983-2014

Licenses

The Netherlands

Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research

Crown Hall Dean’s Dialogues: 2012-2017 (Actar, 2017)
Ellen Kooi Above Rotterdam (Actar, 2016)
Wiel Arets–Bas Princen (Hatje Cantz, 2015)
Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (Birkhäuser, 2012)
Wiel Arets: Inspiration & Process in Architecture (Moleskin, 2012)
STILLS: A Timeline of Ideas, Articles & Interviews 1983-2010 (010 Publishers, 2010)
Wiel Arets: Living Library (Prestel, 2005)
El Croquis, No. 85 Wiel Arets (El Croquis, 1997)
Wiel Arets Architect (010 Publishers, 1989)
Wiel Arets: Strange Bodies (Birkhäuser, 1996)