Gerrit Rietveld 's shop designs in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962

Abstract

This essay investigates the shops as well as commercial buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962, focusing on the relation between the interior and the exterior in each project. Gaining insight into his contribution to the history of shop designs. This research has been conducted through a combination of literature study, and the archive of Gerrit Rietveld in the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and provides elaboration on themes as the designs of the shop front, the interior, and the connection between them. These themes are addressed through observation of the images, and drawings in the archive and other resources. The essay also provides a critical view for the role of those shops in history, and their influences on subsequent shop designs after that. AR2A011Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science