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Contemporary Dutch Architecture PracticeKey Developments, alphabetical: Academy for Arts & Architecture, Maastricht, The Netherlands 1993 Amsterdam Arts Metropole – AAM, The Netherlands 2005- 6 storeys Apartment tower, Amsterdam - Apartment tower, Rotterdam - AZL Pension Fund, Heerlen, The Netherlands 1995 Beltgens Fashionstore, Maastricht 1986-87 Boxtel Police Station, The Netherlands 1994-97 Hotel Zenden, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2009  photo : Joao Morgado Hotel Zenden Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands 2004  photo © Alan Mason Utrecht University Library Valid Tower, Eindhoven, the Netherlands 2004-09  photo : Christian Richters Photography Valid Tower Eindhoven |
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Studios based in Maastricht and Amsterdam (Holland) and Zurich (Switzerland)Wiel Arets Architects - Company Profile
Wiel Arets, born 1955, is a Dutch architect from the Dutch-German border town of Heerlen. After graduating from Eindhoven University in 1983, he established Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in his hometown a year later. In 1996 the office was moved to Maastricht. Bettina Kraus, born 1970 in Nuremberg, joined the firm in 1997 and became partner in 2000; establishing the firm's second office in Amsterdam during 2004. In 2008, a third branch office was opened in Zürich.
The studio of Wiel Arets Architects investigates and produces space in response to life, the potential of function, the character of place and the nature of material. The studio of has extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, and public, private and utility buildings on every scale. Additionally, the studio develops products for mass production in collaboration with leading design manufacturers.
Wiel Arets has taught and served as visiting professor at some of the world most important universities including the Architectural Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Columbia University and the Cooper Union in New York, the HAK Vienna, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 1995-2002 he was dean of the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, where he also directed the PhD program until 2004. Since 2001 he holds the Berlage chair at the Technical University Delft. In 2004 he accepted professorship at the UDK in Berlin. Bettina Kraus graduated from the TU Stuttgart in 1996, after studying at the ETH Zurich and HDK Berlin. Since 2004 she has been teaching at the UDK Berlin.
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