Rietveld Works ARCHITECT
Rietveld Works ARCHITECT
Rietveld Works ARCHITECT
Presented by
Jishant hari
Shree sakthi
Gayathri
rakesh
INTRODUCTION
De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism,
was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden.
De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a narrower sense,
the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to
1931 founded in the Netherlands.
PRINCIPLE:
DIED
25 June 1964 (aged 76)
NATIONALITY
Dutch
OCCUPATION
Architect and Furniture designer. One of the principal
Members of Dutch artistic movement or De stijl.
KNOWN FOR
Rood-blauw stoel (Red and Blue Chair) and for
the Rietveld Schröder House,which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
AWARDS
Sikkens Prize
RECOGNITION
-Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
-"Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York,
- “Rietveld Year” in Utrecht
- Gerrit and Rietveld(Two software tools, both for code review, named after Gerrit Rietveld)
Following are the major projects done
by Gerrit Rietveld:
•Red and Blue Chair (1917)
•Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht (1924)
•Hillebrandt House, The Hague, 1935
•Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
•Muziekschool, Zeist (1932)
•the Schroder House (1924)
•the Zig-Zag chair
•mass-produced houses at Utrecht (1931–34)
•the De Ploeg Textile Works (1956)
•Bergeyk; a housing development (1954–56)
•the art academy (1962), Arnhem
•Stoop House, Velp, 1951
•the Hoograven Housing complex, Utrecht (1954-
1957)
•the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht (1956)
•the De Ploeg textile factory, Bergeyk (1956)
The Rietveld Schröder House
•In 1924, Truus Schröder asked well-known Utrecht
furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld to design a new house for
her.
•Schröder played an important role in the design process.
She knew exactly what she wanted: simplicity and a space
that freed rather than constrained her.
•Until then, Rietveld had created mainly furniture and
scale models. His renowned Red and Blue Chair, for example,
was designed around 1919. Never before had he been asked
to design an entire house.
•For Rietveld, Schröder's project was a dream come true.
He pulled out all the stops, trying out new ideas in keeping
with De Stijl.
•De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement named after
an eponymous modern art magazine first published in
1917. Rietveld was one of the movement's leading
exponents.
•The Rietveld Schröder House is an embodiment of De Stijl.
Characteristic features include the fluid
transitions between interior and exterior, the
clean horizontal and vertical lines and the use of
all primary colours, alongside white, grey
and black.