News

may 28, 2025
The Poetry of Absence - by Minimal Collective

april 13, 2025
The Golden Square Metre at the VOC-quay, Amsterdam

august 28, 2024
Belgium newspaper "De Standaard” - Is visual art meant for eternity?

april 02, 2024
RAAAF @Wikipedia

may 19, 2023
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2023 , UNESCO, for our art-based approach

march 26, 2023
Deltawerk // in new International tv serie ‘Arcadia’

june 28, 2022
Nomination Black Water- Amsterdam Art Prize 2022

may 12, 2022
Deltawerk // on Dutch TV in “Eternal struggle against water”

january 16, 2022
Luftschloss in collection Eye filmmuseum Amsterdam

march 10, 2022
Best Dutch Book Design 2021 Award - "Landscape of Affordances"

december 31, 2021
'Black Water' in NRC selection of Best Visual Art 2021 Internationally

december 03, 2021
Special & Second edition book "Landscape of Affordances"

november 17, 2021
New installation - Black Water - press reviews

september 16, 2021
Deltawerk // has been awarded five times now

july 27, 2021
Bunker 599 is now officially listed as UNESCO world heritage

may 30, 2021
"Luftschloss" Film premiere. Eye Filmmuseum. Amsterdam Art Week 2021

february 27, 2021
Art in Grief

november 10, 2020
Britta Peters (curator Skulptur Projekte Münster) ambassador of Deltawerk //

november 20, 2020
New book - The Landscape of Affordances

december 01, 2018
Deltawerk // - Best Visual Art 2018 - NRC Handelsbald

october 03, 2020
New Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)

march 20, 2020
Deltawerk // listed as one of 100 key artworks NL since 1945

june 29, 2019
Reviews on our new art installation 'Still Life' in Het HEM - Amsterdam

may 07, 2019
Ronald Rietveld interviewed - VPRO 'Nooit meer Slapen"

april 23, 2019
Erik Rietveld - Socrates professor of Philosophical Reflection

december 20, 2018
New installation - Bullet factory

october 30, 2018
Lecture Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

september 18, 2018
Interviews and reviews Deltawerk //

july 11, 2018
Opening Deltawerk // - 27 september 2018

june 16, 2018
Opening installation “Hidden Worlds” - Cappadox Contemporary Art

april 14, 2018
New Installation at Cappadox Contemporary Art festival, June 13

january 26, 2018
"Trusted Strangers" in Parool + Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

december 04, 2017
Interviews, reviews and publications on Hardcore Heritage

november 03, 2017
Premiere "Trusted Strangers" in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (sold out)

october 29, 2017
Interviews in Dutch news papers Trouw and Volkskrant

september 05, 2017
Six new lectures in september - Mexico City - Antwerp- Cuernavaca- Amsterdam

august 29, 2017
New installation- Beyond the Atlantic Burden

june 29, 2017
RAAAF ǀ Atelier de Lyon awarded 'European Prize of Architecture - Philippe Rotthier'

june 23, 2017
Future Series #8 - Constructed Images of the Future - 30 juni, Pakhuis de Zwijger

may 15, 2017
New article on Indestructible Holland in The Architectural Review

may 17, 2017
Seven upcoming lectures by RAAAF in Amsterdam, London, Trondheim, Rotterdam, ….

march 07, 2017
RAAAF chosen as one of the 100 talents in design & art 2016/ 2017

february 13, 2017
New Lectures- Ottawa (CA)-Kopenhagen (DK)-Rotterdam-Maastricht-Leuven (BE)

february 16, 2017
Breaking Habits - Preview new installation on Dutch TV

january 09, 2017
Affordances is the scientific term of 2017 ! - That claims philosopher Daniel Dennett

december 30, 2016
Press reviews - Deltawerk// - new national monument

october 04, 2016
Three new lectures on ‘Hardcore Heritage’ in The Netherlands and USA

october 07, 2016
Ronald Rietveld will be a jury member in three different juries on art and architecure

september 15, 2016
Financial Times and more

july 01, 2016
Hardcore Heritage - exhibition and lecture - Cityscapes Gallery - July 07

june 01, 2016
Ten upcoming lectures by Ronald en Erik Rietveld

may 28, 2016
Interview in Dutch newspaper Trouw on Constant's New Babylon and RAAAF

february 20, 2016
Recent interviews - Architectural Review, Metropolis NYC, Freunde von Freunden

april 01, 2016
Giardini in Silence - Metamorphosis in between art and architecture, Venice

march 24, 2016
Propoasal for Delta Monument, to be realized in 2017

january 19, 2016
Ronald & Erik Rietveld new members of the Royal Academy of Arts (KNAW)

january 02, 2016
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Erik Rietveld

december 21, 2015
Shadows in Paris - exhibition in French Architecture Institute

november 02, 2015
RAAAF wins The Great Indoor Award 2015

october 20, 2015
RAAAF chosen as New Talent by 'Metropolis - New York City'

october 01, 2015
Press reviews RAAAF - State of the Art of Architecture | Chicago

september 07, 2015
Lecture Ronald Rietveld - Atlantik Wall in Mueseon, The Hague

august 21, 2015
After Image

may 31, 2015
New Lectures - TEDx Ghent, van Abbe Museum, week of the vacant building

april 14, 2015
RAAAF selected for ‘The State of the Art of Architecture’ | Chicago Architecture Biennale

march 16, 2015
Film The End of Sitting 1:1 by The Royal Academy of Arts (KNAW)

december 15, 2014
RAAAF nominated for Iakov Chernikov Award 2015

december 20, 2014
Reviews of our new book Vacancy Studies

january 07, 2015
International press on the The End of Sitting

november 21, 2011
Opening 'The End of Sitting'

november 05, 2014
Secret Operation 610 nominated for Mies van de Rohe Award 2015

september 26, 2014
Save the date - End of Sitting

october 06, 2014
Urbane Kunst Ruhr - lecture Ronald Rietveld, 10 oktober 2014

august 22, 2014
New Arrivals der niederländischen Architektur!

july 31, 2014
Publicity Outstanding Landscape of Affordances

june 23, 2014
Keynote lectures Kunsthal Rotterdam & Stijp S eindhoven, June 24

may 30, 2014
Press preview of our new book at the Venice Architecture Biennale Venice

march 31, 2014
The Annual Art & Science Lecture by Erik & Ronald Rietveld

february 21, 2014
RAAAF interviewed by Art21 | New York

january 16, 2014
lecture at Royal Institute of British Architects

december 20, 2013
RAAAF is Dutch Architect of the Year

november 29, 2013
RAAAF & Atelier de Lyon have won the Architectural Review Award 2013

november 20, 2013
RAAAF has announced Rotterdam Design Prize nominees

october 29, 2013
RAAAF is the new name of our studio

september 20, 2013
New York Times & Financial Times on Intensive Care installation

september 13, 2013
Opening Secret Operation 610

july 06, 2013
Recent publications

july 10, 2013
Studio Vacant NL graduation exhibition

june 09, 2013
Vacancy Studies - keynote lecture - Pakhuis de Zwijger, June 10

may 16, 2013
VIDI Award Erik Rietveld

may 11, 2013
Installation ‘Pretty Vacant’ in Centraal Museum, May 19

april 04, 2013
Installation at Istanbul Art Biennale 2013

march 06, 2013
New Radicals Ronald en Erik Rietveld

february 27, 2013
New research website Erik Rietveld

february 06, 2013
Secret project on Cold War Airbase Soesterberg

october 13, 2012
Review Prix de Rome - AVRO Kunstuur with Mels Crouwel

january 09, 2013
Jack Up City arrived in Amsterdam

december 19, 2012
Bunker 599 on the cover of the yearbook L & U 2012

november 07, 2012
Ronald Rietveld reflects during NAi The Legacy

october 31, 2012
recent articles and publications

october 15, 2012
RAAAF - key Airbase Soesterberg

october 04, 2012
upcoming lectures

september 14, 2012
Dutch DFA Profile - Designing in times of crisis

august 31, 2012
Special edition Pecha Kucha Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

august 16, 2012
Next week at the Venice Architecture Biennale

august 14, 2012
Ithaka's Secret Garden opened

july 05, 2012
Ronald Rietveld jury member GRA Awards

june 20, 2012
Midsummer Night Lecture 2012

may 24, 2012
Prix de Rome looks back on Dutch television

may 15, 2012
Bunker 599 becomes national monument

april 11, 2012
Vacant Appsterdam launched

march 27, 2012
Lecture National Museum Oslo

february 13, 2012
“Vacant NL” wins Rotterdam Design Prize 2011

january 17, 2012
Rietveld Landscape again on Dutch television

january 03, 2012
Reviews lectures, recent articles en publications

december 01, 2011
Vacant NL nominated for Rotterdam Design Prijs

october 23, 2011
RAAAF wins two Dutch Design Awards

june 04, 2012
Opening Fort Werk aan 't Spoel

october 19, 2011
'Firemen walk with us' in Sphinx Maastricht

september 19, 2011
Rietveld Landscape curator Sphinx Maastricht

august 30, 2011
New lectures Ronald Rietveld

july 29, 2011
Two projects in finales Dutch Design Awards

june 20, 2011
Master Vacant NL media coverage

june 10, 2011
Movie "The making of Bunker 599"

may 24, 2011
Rietveld Landscape 5x in permanent collection NAi

april 15, 2011
Launch National Knowledge Platform ''Interim Use in Development''

april 28, 2011
Coming Soon: Master Vacant NL at Sandberg Institute

april 07, 2011
Exhibition, ''de Stad 3D'', Hilversum, April 15

february 09, 2011
Sea of Wind presented at symposium Windkracht

december 15, 2010
Yearbook Landscape architecture and town planning in the Netherlands

july 30, 2011
Rietveld Landscape in AVRO Kunstuur

january 16, 2011
Media coverage Bunker 599

january 15, 2011
Reviews lectures and Venice Architecture Biennale

november 03, 2010
Lectures Rietveld Landscape

september 27, 2010
Symposium Schieblok, Rotterdam, October 21

october 01, 2010
Bunker 599 opened by minister Verburg

september 16, 2010
Ronald Rietveld finalist for Iakov Chernikhov International Prize

august 27, 2010
Book presentation 'Dutch Atlas of Vacancy'

august 28, 2010
Lecture Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, September 7

september 13, 2010
Media coverage Dutch Pavilion Venice Biennale

july 01, 2010
Curatorial Statement Dutch entry Architecture Biennale Venice

june 30, 2010
Welcome to concrete!

may 10, 2010
Lecture at sympoium 'Toekomst van het even', June 23 Groningen

may 12, 2010
Rietveld Landscape curator Dutch Pavilion Architecture Biennale Venice

april 05, 2010
Exhibition 'Bloedkoralen van de Oosterschelde', Middelburg

march 11, 2010
Lecture at symposium Culture as Confrontation, March 25 Amsterdam

march 25, 2010
Reviews of New Amsterdam Park | Trusted Subcultures

february 02, 2010
Exhibition NAi , Architecture of Consequence, Rotterdam, february 19 2010

december 27, 2009
Ronald Rietveld jury member PRIXDEROME.NL 2010 Architecture

december 15, 2009
NWO Veni award for Erik Rietveld

september 14, 2008
Erik Rietveld 'Fellow in Philosophy' at Harvard

november 25, 2009
Lecture R.S.I. - Rietveld Strategic Interventions, UPV, Valencia, November 26, 2009

november 16, 2009
Opening NAi exhibition, Architecture of Consequence, Moscow

november 13, 2009
Debate on Amsterdam's public domain, De Balie November 14, 2009

october 25, 2009
NAi Debate on Tour, Public Space, October 26, DAC Kopenhagen

september 15, 2009
Exhibition, "The Making of Free State Amsterdam", Zuiderkerk, October 14

september 27, 2009
Book on Dutch Water Line presented to minister Plasterk

october 15, 2009
Temporarily Open as Strategy, symposium (in Dutch) October 21, Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

september 07, 2009
Opening NAi exhibition, Biennale Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 31, 2009

august 13, 2009
Opening exhibition, IABR Rotterdam, Free State Amsterdam, September 27

july 01, 2009
Interaction between the elements, advice to the commisionboard

june 08, 2009
Start construction at fortress Werk aan 't Spoel

june 09, 2009
Ronald Rietveld in jury Open Fort 400

april 09, 2009
Barbara Visser en Ronald Rietveld in advisory committee SKOR

january 29, 2009
Generating Dune Scapes in Kunsthal Rotterdam, 200 years Prix de Rome

june 25, 2008
Publications Erik Rietveld

december 18, 2008
Ronald Rietveld will be a member of the juries Archiprix 2009 and Europan 10

november 27, 2008
Recent publications

october 29, 2008
Lecture Marieke Timmermans en Ronald Rietveld, 100 jaar AVB, december 04, 2008

september 25, 2008
Lecture "Coast city", Kurhaus Hotel The Hague, October 24, 2008

september 03, 2008
Lecture "mixed crowd", NDSM Amsterdam, September 04, 2008

august 29, 2008
Rietveld Landscape I Atelier de Lyon design panoramic viewpoint Maasvlakte

may 31, 2008
Lecture "A Wider View", International Triënnale Apeldoorn, june 17

april 24, 2008
Lecture “Landscape as generator”, Bergen Norway, May 26

january 17, 2007
Lecture “Synopsis”, Cobra museum Haarlem

june 15, 2007
Lecture on “Water Moss Rocks” Amsterdam

october 10, 2007
NAi presents 'Port of the future'

october 16, 2007
Lecture “Dutch interventions”, TU-Delft

november 08, 2007
“Water city Amsterdam”, Zuiderkerk lecture

november 09, 2007
Symposium Architectuur 2.0, Doelen Rotterdam

november 24, 2007
Jury decision Gouden Piramide on AVRO-television

december 15, 2007
Ithaka wins

march 01, 2008
Ronald Rietveld presents Dutch Water Line on NCRV-television

december 12, 2007
Adriaan Geuze and Ronald Rietveld present visions on Dutch coast

march 09, 2011
Land Art of The Future - Keynote lecture RAAAF