Wiel Arets : works, projects, writings /
edited by Xavier Costa ; photographs by Hélène Binet.
- New York , N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, c2002.
- 326 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, port. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Wiel Arets, one of the most influential architects practicing today, is renowned for the transparent clarity and rigid geometry of his work. Austere but humane, his buildings evince a forceful presence yet retain a remarkable sensitivity to their urban context. Reputed for such diverse designs as the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht, a skyscraping Amsterdam apartment tower, the corporate headquarters for the AZL Pension Fund, police stations in Boxtel and Vaals, and a series of spiritually rich residences (including his own), Arets is a rising star on the international scene and is revered in his native Holland as a modern master in the tradition of Louis I. Kahn.". "The first full-length monograph on his work, Wiel Arets features hundreds of stunning photographs by the acclaimed architectural photographer Helene Binet. It contains critical essays by architect and writer Xavier Costa; Anthony Vidler, dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York; New York-based architects and theorists Greg Lynn and Stan Allen; and Bart Lootsma, architectural critic and author of SuperDutch: New Architecture in the Netherlands."--BOOK JACKET.