No one demands that people move to cities; people tend to do so, on their own. People choose to move to cities for opportunity. Such choices are often made unconsciously, as they are based on rules, traditions, and local communities–or a combination of all three. Un-Conscious-City explores and unravels Dutch architect Wiel Arets’ kaleidoscopic viewpoints on the ways the collective, unconscious decisions taken by the world’s citizens throughout time–a process that remains invisible to the naked eye–are now working to transform and shift the physical, sensory, and emotional experiences of human beings, as they navigate and live in today’s metropolises as well as the countryside. People tend to only belong to one religion, one society, or one club–which completely defines their existence. One day most human beings will live in a global­nomadic-urban-condition; this will soon be amplified to unknown heights. Un-Conscious-City raises questions, predicaments, and ideals regarding the future of our cities, while recognizing their limitations. Wiel Arets–renowned architect, writer, and thinker–identifies this condition as the Un-Conscious-City.

Ein Werk in transparenter Klarheit und geometrischer Ordnung hat Wiel Arets zu einem der einflussreichsten Architekten Europas gemacht. In der Tradition Louis I. Kahns wahren seine Werke trotz ihrer Strenge einen menschlichen Maßstab: sie wirken kraftvoll, aber nicht anmaßend. Arets‘ großes Interesse gilt der Hülle des Gebäudes: Als Membran bestimmt sie je nach Wahl der innovativen Materialien das Maß der Durchlässigkeit und wirkt als Filter. Damit einher geht eine große Sensibilität für den urbanen Kontext. Das Buch stellt Arets‘ wichtigste Bauten und Projekte vor, unter ihnen die Akademie für Kunst und Architektur in Maastricht, das Hauptgebäude der AZL Pensionskasse in Heerlen sowie einige neuere Projekte, die hier erstmals veröffentlicht werden. Eine Auswahl aus Arets‘ eigenen Schriften sowie kritische Essays von Xavier Costa, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, Stan Allen und Bart Lootsma ergänzen diese Werkdokumentation. Die Fotografien stammen von Hélène Binet.

The book offers a unique and unparalleled in-depth view of this internationally renowned architect. Arets optimistic outlook towards the future, wich he calls " a wonderful world: a new map of the world," lectures on theta topic, debates between him an other thinkers and makers. 80 exemplary designs from his studio, abd an extensive series of interviews with Arets. Within these texts his background, education, projects, abd teachings are interwoven in a discussion that highlights the evolution of this career.

Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it. Beyond a comprehensive depiction of the individual works, the monograph underlines transversal notions of inventory, format, scale, regulation and value within the pictorial representation. In the fashion of a personal album, each drawing, painting, photograph, model or building, evokes the mental world behind the couple's production. This volume could be read both as a collection of ideas, one after another, or as the same one that persists over time.

"NOWNESS FILES charts the evolution of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, under the deanship of distinguished architect Wiel Arets, from 2012-2018. NOWNESS FILES is the second publication in the NOWNESS series from Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture-announcing and documenting the college's activities. Whereas NOWNESS set the college's new educational, and urban-centric theme-"Rethinking Metropolis"-and sought to announce new initiatives instituted under then new dean Wiel Arets; NOWNESS FILES documents the effect of those changes on the college's curriculum. Its pages chart the evolution of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), first awarded in 2014, expound on the numerous publications produced at the college from 2012-2018, reflects on lectures and lecturers, and highlights the college's new digital media outlets, as the website, and archiving system PROTOCOL. Special attention is given to the revised and expanded degrees the college offers, and to the activities of its faculty, staff, and students- who compose the college's community. Like the original publication; NOWNESS FILES closes with a visual essay by the late photographer Michael Wolf-with a selection of images from his "Transparent City" series-documenting Chicago's glass skyscrapers, and life within them."--Provided by publisher.

Colliding modern architecture, theatrically informed photography, and surreal poetry and prose; this carefully-crafted collaboration between artist Ellen Kooi, architect Wiel Arets, and artist Katrien Van den Brande documents five sets of highly-staged visual 'scenarios', and nine textual 'situations', of numerous imaginary guests, who simultaneously inhabit the B' Tower-a high-rise in the center of Rotterdam. Each scenario was dreamt up, created, and captured on camera by Kooi; each of Van den Brande's situations were written while staying at the tower, in the guise of the many other, 'unseen', temporary tower guests.

MCHAP: The Americas' brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and explores themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN? Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radic, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize cycle recognizing the best built work in the Amercas from 2000 through 2013. 0As part of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MHCAP) program, established by Dean Wiel Arets at IIT Architecture Chicago, recognizing the best built work in the Americas from 2000 through 2013, MCHAP is publishing 'MCHAP BOOK ONE', as well as publications by the authors of MCHAP 2000-2008 winner, Álvaro Siza, the MCHAP 2009-2013 winner, Herzog & de Meuron, and the MCHAP.emerge 2000-2013 winner, Pezo von Ellrichshausen.

As cities evolve architects are constantly searching for appropriate architectonic solutions, and in this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of presentday cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as lowenergy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from architects such as Wiel Arets, Shigeru Ban, Ben van Berkel, Kees Christiaanse, Philippe Gazeau, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Morger & Degelo, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Kas Oosterhuis, illustrate the subjects discussed. "Housing" and "Single-Family Housing" were previously published separately, each proving hugely popular. Now both volumes have been incorporated into a single, lowpriced edition.

Conté: Aires Mateus : Housing for the Elderly, Alcácer do Sal ; Alberola, Díaz-Mauriño, Martorell : Vara de Rey, Madrid ; Arch. Workshop : Klarheit, Tokyo ; B612: Dolez, Brussels ; Batlle i Roig : Vilamarina Housing and Shopping Centre, Viladecans ; BIG : 8 House, Copenhagen ; Bogdan & Van Broeck/VBM : The Maltery, Leuven ; Brendeland & Kristoffersen : Svalbard Housing, Longyearbyen ; Chiba Manabu : Stitch, Tokyo ; Colomès Nomdedeu : Student Housing, Troyes ; Diener & Diener/MCBAD/Paillard : Zac Seguin Housing, Boulogne Billancourt ; Druot, Lacaton & Vassal : Tour Bois le Pretre, Paris ; Edouard François : Coming Out, Grenoble ; EE/ECDM/MG/PG/MVRDV : Le Monolithe, Lyon ; EM2N : Rosenberg Conversion, Winterthur ; Guidotti : Rosa Housing, Monte Carasso ; Hamonic + Masson : Docks Dombasles, Le Havre ; Jordi Garcés : Non-Conventional Housing, Barcelona ; Kempe Thill : Atriumtower Hiphouse, Zwolle ; Kempe Thill : Urban Renewal Europarei, Uithoorn ; Lion, Lapierre, Gap, Berim : Square des Sports, Gonesse ; Marlies Rohmer : Neighbourhood Factory, Amsterdam ; MGM : Monte Hacho Housing, Ceuta ; Moriko Kira : IJburg Block 65b, Amsterdam ; Moussafir/Katz/Tachon : Emile Chaîne Area Regeneration, Paris ; Nicolas Michelin : Grand Large-Neptune, Dunkirk ; Pampols : 19 Youth Housing, Lleida ; Rueda Pizarro : 64 social Housing Units, Madrid ; S333 : Arch Street, London ; S333: Block 3, Tarling East, London ; Serrat, Egea, García : Can Travi Elderly Housing, Barcelona ; TOA : Housing, Sports Hall and Community Gardens, Paris ; VA Studio : MD housing, Vila Nova de Gaia ; Victor López Cotelo : Caramoniña Housing, Santiago de Compostela ; Wiel Arets : 4 Towers Osdorp, Amsterdam ; X-TU : Duploye Housing, Paris ; ZigZag : Vivazz, Mieres.

"Concrete's structural strength and visual variety combined with the particulars of place and culture have allowed Tadao Ando (Osaka), Ricardo Legorreta (Mexico City), Antoine Predock (Albuquerque, USA) and Wiel Arets (The Netherlands) to realize progressive and seminal forms. The buildings of these four lauded architects sensitively respond to their environments, while nevertheless functioning as monumental symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings." "Although they have established large international practices, the approaches of the four architects have enabled them to forge an architectonic language that is both solid and meaningful. From Predock's sensitive interpretations of America's southwest desert to Ando's graceful intervention in natural and urban contexts, from Legorreta's bold representations of Mexico's rich pre-Columbian heritage to Arets's cool 'second-modernist' forms, each architect's highly individual vision has created unique buildings for people and their environments." "In one sense the result of local conditions, the buildings in Concrete Regionalism also seem to exist out of time and place, constant reminders that there persists in architecture a search for enduring form."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved