The world as seen from above: The fen district of the river Vecht near Utrecht, The Netherlands: Excavation for peat created this unique landscape of shallow man-made lakes and bogs with narrow canals widening out to the lakes. This is where Gerrit Rietveld was commissioned in 1940 to design a holiday home, considered by some as a strangely unrepresentative piece of work.. #holland #thenetherlands #fenland #lakes #manmadelake #vernaculararchitecture #rietveld #gerritrietveld #vernaculararchitecture #modernism #modernistarchitecture by rozemanarch

The world as seen from above: The fen district of the river Vecht near Utrecht, The Netherlands: Excavation for peat created this unique landscape of shallow man-made lakes and bogs with narrow canals widening out to the lakes. This is where Gerrit Rietveld was commissioned in 1940 to design a holiday home, considered by some as a strangely unrepresentative piece of work.. #holland #thenetherlands #fenland #lakes #manmadelake #architecture #vernaculararchitecture #rietveld #gerritrietveld #vernaculararchitecture #modernism #modernistarchitecture via Instagram http://ift.tt/1SQ1WcH