Johannis de Rijke belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Johannis de Rijke as civil engineer from the Netherlands.
Johannis de Rijke was born at Colijnsplaat in 1842. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as civil engineer and engineer.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd Class and Knight of the Order of Leopold.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johannis de Rijke died in 1913, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd Class
- Knight of the Order of Leopold
