Studio

Rietveld Architects is dedicated to the careful design and delivery of bespoke residential architecture grounded in clarity, proportion, and material integrity.

Each project is approached as a considered response to site, landscape, and brief — balancing architectural expression with restraint to achieve enduring spatial clarity.

The studio operates at a measured pace, allowing careful development and resolution of each project through all stages of design and construction.

Studio Ethos

Residential architecture should feel inevitable — resolved through clarity of proportion, material integrity, and disciplined restraint. Our work seeks permanence rather than novelty, and coherence rather than excess.

Proportion

Proportion underpins every decision.
Relationships between wall, void, structure and light are considered as part of a unified whole, ensuring spatial balance is experienced intuitively rather than imposed.

Material Integrity

Materials are selected for longevity and authenticity.
Texture, weight, and junction are resolved carefully so that construction expresses intention rather than decoration.

Light & Spatial Sequence

The progression through a home is choreographed deliberately.
Compression and release, threshold and arrival, shadow and illumination form part of a spatial narrative that unfolds over time.

Restraint

Restraint is fundamental.
We avoid embellishment for its own sake, preferring clarity of form and disciplined detailing to define architectural character.

Craft & Resolution

Precision in documentation and construction oversight ensures that the integrity of the architectural idea is maintained through execution.

The studio’s work reflects a commitment to architectural clarity, material authenticity, and enduring spatial quality.