Unconscious City
RSA Spring Lecture Series: Modern
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Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall
Wiel Arets established his own office in the Netherlands in 1983, which has since expanded throughout Europe. His writings and projects are published globally. From 1995 to 2001 he was Dean of the Berlage in Rotterdam, and in 2012 he was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture (CoA) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. An eminent critic, he 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 the CoA, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), of which he is President of the Board.