Rietveld

More interesting — and well worth the longer journey — is Arnhem, where the Rietveld art school designed between 1958 and 1963, now known as ArtEZ Academy, stands on a superb site on the Rhine.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

Almost unknown is the home for handicapped children in the Dutch Caribbean colony of Cura ç ao, which Rietveld designed incorporating local organic materials.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

Short films and an audio guide, featuring the actual voice of Rietveld with translations, helps visitors immerse themselves in the thinking and practice of the architect.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

The exhibition, while placing Rietveld in historical context alongside his contemporaries Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, concentrates much more on his experimental ways of working.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

Visitors are encouraged to take advantage of one of the new primary-colored "Rietveld bicycles" and ride the short distance less than half a mile to see the house that broke all the rules in the 1920s.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

At the Rietveld Workshop across the street from the museum, visitors are shown how to make their own model of a typical Rietveld chair, working from reproductions of the designer's actual blueprint drawings.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

Courtesy of Joris Laarman Lab Bone Chairs inspired by the mechanics of bone growth Laarman compares the promise of the current age of digital fabrication to the array of industrial innovations that informed the novel work of Modernists like Gerrit Rietveld.

Design of the Digital Age Tom Vanderbilt 2011

Now, 300 Piet Mondrian artworks and a large collection by De Stijl collaborators, such as Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, J.J.P. Oud and Gerrit Rietveld, have a permanent home in a new 750-square-meter wing of the Gemeentemuseum.

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It still shines as an example of Rietveld's crisp, glass-curtain walls and thoughtful planning for the teaching and displaying of art, a subject that Rietveld felt could not really be taught.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011

Rietveld is best known for his "Red Blue Chair" — a piece of furniture famous more for the experimental way it breaks down the structural idea of a chair than for its contribution to comfort.

A World Where Less Made More Colin Amery 2011