Jury-GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN / Published on December 29, 2020
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Rijk Rietveld
Partner
Rietveld Architects New York
New York, United States
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE – PEOPLE OF DESIGN VERSION!
What prescient youthful memory relates to your present career?
Working in my dad’s office when I was old enough to reach the drafting board was definitely prescient of my present career.
What are three basic rules you learned from your mentors?
■ Every change needs to be an improvement.
■ Not every project needs to have all of my ideas
incorporated.
■ Think in cross sections.
What project launched your career?
The Equinox office building in The Hague, in the Netherlands launched my career.
Equinox office building, 2001,
The Hague, Netherlands.
Our first project on top of a highway.
What is your current design state of mind?
Reaching for softer, greener, clearer glass, open stairs, higher spaces.
What living designer/architect do you most admire?
Herman Hertzberger,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL, via Wikimedia Commons
Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
What is your most marked design quality?
I’m strong in layered thinking, in redefining, in spatial thinking. The man of 1000 sketches!
Media office, 2005, New York, United States,
Photo credit: Carl Bellavia.
Curved metal screen on floor wall and ceiling.
Amsterdam housing, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Switching corner balconies.
Hydron office building, 2001, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Photo credit: Hans Morren.
Rejuvenation of 1960s office building with full height climate facade.
Photo credit: imd.
Suspended laminated wood stair in Richard Meier’s City hall.
Trehan residence, 2012, New York, United States,
Photo credit: Margaret Rietveld.
Stair detail.
Vormenfabriek, 2016, Tilburg, Netherlands, Photo credit: v.d. Ven. Affordable housing.
How would you like your designs to go down in history?
As innovative!
Inholland University, 2010, Delft, Netherlands,
Photo Credit : Hans Morren.
World’s thinnest double glass facade.
What peer quality do you most value?
I value their attention to details.
Which project is the epitome of your work?
The Amvest office building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Amvest headquarters, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Photo Credit: Studio Nooyer.
Hanging from the roof. context and make it into a new dimension.
Amvest headquarters, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Photo Credit: Studio Nooyer.
Open escape stairs.
What is your favorite place in the world?
New York
What design or architecture project do you wish you would have thought of yourself?
I.M. Pei’s Louvre project!
Quite the fan:)
Louvre Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If you could host any three guests, past or alive, over for dinner, who would you choose and what would you dare serving?
Barack Obama, my wife and partner Margaret Rietveld and Ron Dennis.
Menu: Mac’n cheese!
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