A hundred years ago, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House - built on the outskirts of Utrecht - marked the beginning of Gerrit Rietveld’s career as an architect. It turned the ideas behind his Red-Blue Chair into architecture and acted as a testament to his artistic and romantic relationship with the owner of the house, Truus Schröder.

Hosting is the act of defining a shared space, while hospitality is the ethics springing from the joy of opening space to one another. Through relationships, frictions, and social practices, værtshuset discusses who has access to and participates in shaping the city.

Join us for Friday Bar at værtshuset, an installation that explores hosting, hospitality, and the spaces we create together. Over drinks and conversation, the afternoon invites conversations, opening up questions about who gets to shape the city. Come by for a drink, stay for the discussions, and take part in a shared space of reflection.

Join a conversation between a bodega owner and a priest, moderated by a researcher. People whose work involves fostering and facilitating spaces of encounter and care in different ways. Together, they will reflect on hospitality as a social practice, discussing who gets to host, who is excluded, and how everyday acts of hosting shape everyday life. 

Robert Venturi has been called the father of postmodernism, but he was so much more. Join us for a film about the visionary architect and his partner in crime, Denise Scott Brown. A film about taking a sledgehammer to modernism and exploring all that architecture can be.