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.

Un-Conscious-City

Politics & Social Sciences

Arets, Wiel

Social Sciences

Actar

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.

Nowness Files: 2012-2018 IIT Architecture Chicago

Arts & Photography

Mimica, Vedran

Ortega, Lluís

Architecture

Wiel Arets is one of the most influential architects in Holland?today. His international reputation is founded on such works as?his 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 modern?block building. He juts forward building sections, gear-toothed?fashion, into the existing city plan. The buildings are incised?into the city tissue like strange bodies, causing us to question?and tug at stale conceptions of urban environment. All are characterized?by the pure severity of materials used, exacting attention to?detail and a multiplicity of natural lighting effects which enfold?in the building's interior.??Film-like, this book documents twelve Arets buildings and projects?from the 1990s with photographs by Kim Zwarts. Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus' foreword and Bart?Lootsma's concluding essay clarify the theoretical underpinnings?of Arets' architecture. Specially selected authors have been invited?to comment on individual projects.

Fremdkörper / Strange Bodies (German and English Edition)

Birkhauser

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Berlage Institute--the Netherlands' international training ground for architecture--this publication investigates how architectural models, insights and principles create a global architectural culture. With contributions by both prominent and up-and-coming architects, theorists, critics, historians and lecturers, The Berlage Institute examines the various fields that factor in the emergence of an architecture culture: education, practice, discourse and media. By means of critical reflection on the projects, theories, buildings and writings that have dominated the culture over the last three decades, the authors in this book preview the trends that will be decisive for architecture discourse in the coming years. Key texts address architecture policy in the Netherlands since the 1980s, the internationalization of Dutch architecture since the 1990s, the development and dissemination of Dutch expertise and the need for appropriate architectural visions for a globalized world.

The Berlage Survey of the Culture, Education, and Practice of Architecture and Urbanism

Docter, Rob

Zarea-Polo, Alejandro

nai010 publishers

AZL Heerlen

010 Uitgeverij

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