Michiel Riedijk (

Geldrop Geldrop is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is in the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, around 5km east of Eindhoven's city centre. Geldrop was a separate municipality until 2004, when it merged with Mierlo. As of 2023, Geldrop ...

, 1964) is a Dutch architect and professor at the

Technical University Delft The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, and natural sciences. It is considered one o ...

. He is co-founder of the architecture office

Neutelings Riedijk Architects Neutelings Riedijk Architects is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk in 1987. Work and design philosophy The work of Neutelings Riedijk Architects has been characteriz ...

in Rotterdam,

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

Life and work

Michiel Riedijk studied architecture at the

from 1983 until 1989. He worked with architect Julliette Bekkering from 1989 until 1991 and in 1992 he founded

in collaboration with

Willem Jan Neutelings Neutelings Riedijk Architects is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk in 1987. Work and design philosophy The work of Neutelings Riedijk Architects has been character ...

. In September 2007 Riedijk accepted full professorship as chair of Public Building and Architectural Compositions at the faculty of Architecture at the

. Michiel Riedijk regularly lectures at universities, conferences and cultural institutions worldwide. He taught at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Maastricht, and the

Berlage Institute The Berlage Institute was an independent unaccredited postgraduate school of architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands, that operated from 1990 to 2012. Named after the Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Institute had an inter ...

in Rotterdam. In 2002, he was a guest professor at the RWTH Aachen. Michiel Riedijk is recognized as international fellow of the RIBA.

' work has been characterized as having a sculptural, often anthropomorphic quality and a playfulness of form while following a clear rationality in programming and context.Aaron Betsky and Adam Eeuwens, ''False Flat: Why Dutch Design Is so Good'', (New York: Phaidon, 2004) They believe that contemporary ornamentation results in buildings with a powerful expression that create new local identities in a globalized world. In 2018 Neutelings Riedijk Architects published the book ‘Ornament & Identity’, a multi-layered essay that presents the results of their search for expression and identity through a selection of thirty-six of their projects. Key projects are the

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis Biodiversity Center () is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. Although its current name and organization are relatively ...

in Leiden,

Museum Aan de Stroom The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS; Dutch for: ''Museum by the Stream'') is a museum located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp. History In 1998 the An ...

or MAS in Antwerp, the

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision (, ''NIBG'') is an archive center and museum located in Hilversum. It collects, preserves, and provides access to most of the Dutch audiovisual collection. In total, the institute has more than 750,000 hou ...

in Hilversum, The City Hall Deventer, Culturehouse Rozet in Arnhem, and

Culture House Eemhuis Culture House Eemhuis is a culture house in Amersfoort, Netherlands was designed by Michiel Riedijk in 2013. The building houses cultural organizations including: a library, institutes of education, a school for arts, and spaces for art exhibiti ...

in Amersfoort. The work of

has been widely published and exhibitioned, and has won a variety of international awards and nominations, such as the Gouden Piramide, the Dutch Building of the Year, the Abe Bonnemaprijs, the Rotterdam Maaskant Prize and the Mies van der Rohe Award shortlist. Their work has been selected for exhibitions in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Barcelona and Moscow.

Selected projects

*Museum ,

, Leiden, Netherlands (2019) *Flemish Government , Herman Teirlinck Building , Brussels, Belgium (2017) *City Hall , Deventer, Netherlands (2017) *Culturehouse , Rozet , Arnhem, Netherlands (2013) *Culturehouse , Eemhuis , Amersfoort, Netherlands (2013) *

Museum aan de Stroom The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS; Dutch for: ''Museum by the Stream'') is a museum located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp. History In 1998 the An ...

, MAS , Antwerp, Belgium (2010) *Dutch Tax Office , Walterboscomplex , Apeldoorn, Netherlands (2007) *Museum and archives ,

, Hilversum, Netherlands (2006) * Shipping and Transport College , Rotterdam, Netherlands (2005) *Lake Side Housing , The Sphinxes , Huizen, Netherlands (2003) *Theatre & Art Centre , STUK , Leuven, Belgium (2002) *University Building , Minnaert , Utrecht, Netherlands (1997)

Publications

* Ornament & Identity – Neutelings Riedijk 2018. * De doorsnede. Onderweg! Vijftien ontwerpen voor Transit Oriented Development (TOD) aan de Zaancorridor, (pp. 23–27), Geerts F., Riedijk M., Amsterdam (2014): BNA, branchevereniging voor Nederlandse architectenbureaus. * Het handschrift van de architect : schetsen van Nicolaas Lansdorp en tijdgenoten, Bergeijk, H van, Riedijk, M (Eds.), Nijmegen 2014. * Integraal ontwerpen van infrastructuren: aanzet tot een agenda voor onderwijs en onderzoek, Riedijk M., Sijmons DF., Hertogh, MJCM, Rots, JG, Geerts, F, Schmets, AJM, Velde, JRT van der, Boer, JJ de, Wilbers, J Delft: TU Delft Integrated Infrastructure Design 2013. * Fragmented panoramas. The city as a project, Riedijk M., (pp. 337–340) Berlin 2013: Ruby Press. * El Croquis 159 – Neutelings Riedijk 2003-2012, Levene, R. (ed.), Madrid 2012. * Architecture as a craft, Riedijk M, Amsterdam 2011: SUN. * The Drawing, Riedijk, M., 010 Publishers 2009. * At Work, Neutelings WJ., Riedijk M., Rotterdam 2004. * Aan het Werk, Neutelings WJ., Riedijk M., Rotterdam 2004. * Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Sanguigni G., Rome 2011. * El Croquis 94 – Neutelings Riedijk 1992-1999, Levene, R. (ed.), Madrid 1999. .

References

External links

Neutelings Riedijk Architects
{{DEFAULTSORT:Riedijk, Michiel 1964 births Living people Dutch architects Delft University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology People from Geldrop 20th-century Dutch people