Editing Gerrit Rietveld (section)

==''Nieuwe Zakelijkheid''==
[[File:WLANL - jankie - Trappenhuis Van Gogh Museum vanaf de 1e verdieping.jpg|thumb|Interior of the [[Van Gogh Museum]] in Amsterdam in 2009]]

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 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.<ref name="vangoghmuseum">{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=13910&lang=en |title=Gerrit Rietveld |publisher=[[Van Gogh Museum]] |location=Amsterdam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723220719/http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=13910&lang=en |archive-date=23 July 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Gerrit rietveld, sedia zig-zag, 1938 ca.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Zig-Zag Chair]] in the [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] in [[Pittsburgh]]]]

Rietveld designed the [[Zig-Zag Chair]] in 1934 and started the design of the [[Van Gogh Museum]] in [[Amsterdam]], which was finished after his death.