The Gerrit Rietveld Academie , also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy , is an art academy in Amsterdam , Netherlands . It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design .
16-467: The Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (Institute for Arts and Crafts Education) was founded by merging three art schools. In 1968, following the completion of the Rietveld Building, the school was renamed to Gerrit Rietveld Academie, in honor of Gerrit Rietveld From 1939 to 1960, the education provided was influenced by the functionalist and socially critical ideas of De Stijl and
32-616: A draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911. By the time he opened his own furniture workshop in 1917, Rietveld had taught himself drawing, painting and model-making. He afterwards set up in business as a cabinet-maker. Rietveld designed his Red and Blue Chair in 1917 which has become an iconic piece of modern furniture. Hoping that much of his furniture would eventually be mass-produced rather than handcrafted, Rietveld aimed for simplicity in construction. In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed
48-475: A partnership with the architects Johan van Dillen and J. van Tricht built hundreds of homes, many of them in the city of Utrecht. His work was neglected when rationalism came into vogue, but he later benefited from a revival of the style of the 1920s thirty years later. Rietveld died on 25 June 1964 in Utrecht. His son Wim Rietveld also became a renowned industrial designer. Rietveld had his first retrospective exhibition devoted to his architectural work at
64-677: Is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld sometime between 1930 and 1934. It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by four flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed and bolted or screwed joints . It was designed for Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and is now produced under license In Cherry or Ash by the Italian manufacturer Cassina S.p.A. , and others as unlicensed knock-offs. The Italian brand has tapped One Block Down for
80-578: The Bauhaus , partly due to the role of the socialist architect Mart Stam as Director of Education. During the 1960s and 1970s, the school saw an increase in the role and influence of autonomous visual art and individual expression. These influences, combined with a practical focus and a critical mindset, are still a significant part of the academy's image. In 2003, the Benthem Crouwel Building, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects ,
96-752: The UNESCO building in Paris. Designed for the display of small sculptures at the Third International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnhem's Sonsbeek Park in 1955, Rietveld's 'Sonsbeek Pavilion' was rebuilt at the Kröller-Müller Museum in 1965. Due to irreparable damages caused by regular decay, it was once again rebuilt, this time with new materials, in 2010. In order to handle all these projects, in 1961 Rietveld set up
112-710: The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam , which was finished after his death. In 1951 Rietveld designed a retrospective exhibition about De Stijl which was held in Amsterdam, Venice and New York. Interest in his work revived as a result. In subsequent years he was given many commissions, including the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Biennale (1953), the art academies in Amsterdam and Arnhem, and the press room for
128-626: The Central Museum, Utrecht, in 1958. When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld. "Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of
144-521: The Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U.S. The highlight of a celebratory "Rietveld Year" in Utrecht, the exhibition "Rietveld's Universe" opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Two software tools, both for code review , have been named after Gerrit Rietveld: Gerrit and Rietveld . Zig-Zag Chair The Zig Zag-chair
160-539: The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in cooperation with, among others, the Fonds BKVB. The artists are given the opportunity to work on research project within a period of 1.5 to 3 years. Gerrit Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner . He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school before working as
176-503: The Rietveld Academy's evening school, offers a two-year foundation programme. This is followed by a three-year degree track, with the choice of the following one of two directions: Autonomous Fine Art, or Interaction, Design, and Unstable Media (IDUM for short). Every year, the Rietveld Academy organizes a number of public events, including: The Rietveld Research Residency (RRR) is a research opportunity for artists, created by
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#1732787526312192-532: The chair's colours after becoming influenced by the De Stijl movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect. The contacts that he made at De Stijl gave him the opportunity to exhibit abroad as well. In 1923, Walter Gropius invited Rietveld to exhibit at the Bauhaus . He built the Rietveld Schröder House , in 1924, in close collaboration with
208-586: The first female architects in the Netherlands. Rietveld broke with De Stijl in 1928 and became associated with a more functionalist style of architecture, known as either Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Nieuwe Bouwen . The same year he joined the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne . From the late 1920s he was concerned with social housing, inexpensive production methods, new materials, prefabrication and standardisation. In 1927 he
224-569: The owner Truus Schröder-Schräder . Built in Utrecht on the Prins Hendriklaan 50, the house has a conventional ground floor, but is radical on the top floor, lacking fixed walls but instead relying on sliding walls to create and change living spaces. The house has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. His involvement in the Schröder House exerted a strong influence on Truus' daughter, Han Schröder , who became one of
240-469: Was already experimenting with prefabricated concrete slabs, a very unusual material at that time. In the 1920s and 1930s, however, all his commissions came from private individuals, and it was not until the 1950s that he was able to put his progressive ideas about social housing into practice, in projects in Utrecht and Reeuwijk. Rietveld designed the Zig-Zag Chair in 1934 and started the design of
256-641: Was completed. In 2019, the Fedlev Building designed by Paulien Bremmer of the Fedlev collective and Hootsmans Architects was completed. The Gerrit Rietveld Academy offers two bachelor's and five permanent master's programmes. There are courses in Architectural Design; Fine Arts; designLAB; Graphic Design; Fashion; Jewellery - Linking Bodies; TXT (Textiles); Image and Language; Photography; Glass; Ceramics; VAV - moving image. DOGtime,
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