NOWNESS

NOWNESS is our approach. One that attempts to reach a diverse audience; one that demonstrates architecture’s multidisciplinary character; and one that we hope reflects the depth, originality, and differences of our ideas...

Living Deluxe

The modern metropolis of Berlin developed from a series of small villages connected by ‘church paths’ to the city, however diffuse it is today. Berlin was never characterized by industries, nor by any other means of using ‘mass’ labor. Rather, it was an informal capital of European bourgeois...

Progressive Research

Contemporary society is changing more rapidly than ever. We can no longer talk about Dutch architecture, as such. We can’t discuss problems that belong to the Netherlands without taking into account...

Tokyo Utopia

Tokyo, at this moment, is the most interesting metropolis to host our research within, providing endless opportunities for discussion. We will challenge the idea of a super-modern-metropolis and how it could stimulate a new utopia in which live/life, production and new ways of working are commonplace. Tokyo has been described as one of the three 'command centers' of the world economy...

Pivotal Point Berlin

Studio Arets is interested in the development of the city as an artificial product, concentrating on Berlin as a phenomenological site, while also researching other metropolises. Berlin is Studio Arets’ research-battlefield, with projects, lectures, and seminars as our weapons...

Double Dutch

In the coming decade, the city will change radically through transformations of difference, rather then of sameness. New typologies of living, working, and leisure within the city have to be developed...

Live/Life

We have through the radicalism of realism to propose alternatives; do research with defined goals and find side effects by surprise, which are probably more interesting than what we're searching for. Some people talk about a problematic position the architect is in right now; I don’t agree with these thoughts. Architecture is first and for all to develop ideas...

Protocol

To launch a magazine at a moment when many others are being introduced is an interesting challenge; especially when the magazine is the responsibility of university students. That a new magazine is being introduced by the student body of the UdK in Berlin...

Difference

To be a stranger is a preferable condition; to relax preconceptions, to absorb, to learn. It is to confront the new, even where it was thought not to exist. It is to enjoy the privilege of seeing difference–even within a global society where ‘sameness’ is said to be the only condition...

UN-C-CITY

The Unconscious City is a condition. It's a recognition; and a thought. It’s a process of learning and understanding that our world, with all its new technologies, is changing our thought processes. This is an important unconscious aspect to recognize. The ways in which we're confronted with these new technologies will challenge the current collective state of mind. Our environment has to adapt. And because of this...

Transition

Living today entails acceleration–or deceleration–in order to pass from one to another, to translate on impulse into another, and to tackle the different situations from changing vantage points. We are living in an era of transition...

Different Strategies

As educators in architecture, what can we contribute and what can we learn? Are we simply 'star architects' preparing future 'star architects' for their niche within the complexity of our contemporary...

A Wonderful World

To understand the world we are living in we have to redefine the ‘Map of the World’, a mental construct which at least since 1492 has undergone many reinterpretations. We could read the world anno 2020 as a collective living space for all, in which all the continents are in reach within 288 minutes, and the maximum travel distance within each continent will be 72 minutes, the time in which every city on each continent...