Atlases

Dutch Atlas of Vacancy

28 + 332 pp / 300 x 446 mm / hardcover / english
author: Ronald Rietveld, Erik Rietveld
year: 2010
collaborator: Christiaan Drost, Tine van Wel, Arthur Roeloffzen, Margriet Hogenbirk, Manuel di Tolve
printer: Lecturis

Dutch Atlas of Vacancy was part of the Vacant NL installation in the Netherlands pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennial. The installation showed vacant state-owned buildings in the Netherlands. Every one of the more than 1.000 empty buildings was rebuilt as a miniature blue foam model and suspended from the pavilion’s double-height ceiling. Curators Rietveld Landscape propose to develop a strategy for temporary use, to make these buildings available to the public, particularly to the creative industries on which the Dutch government is banking its future prosperity.

Commissioned by the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

[Reproduction photography by Peter Cox]