Jan Cornelis Rietveld was born on April 27, 1919 in Utrecht, as zoon van de wereldberoemde designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld. Opgegroeid in a omgeving doordrenkt van kunst en design, ontwikkelde hij al vroeg a scherp oog voor architectuur en vormgeving. Hij was deel van creatief gezin: zijn zus Bep Rietveld werd kunstschildes, zijn broer Wim Rietveld groeide uit tot a toonaangevend industrieel designer, and zijn broer Gerrit Rietveld jr. direct yourself to the furniture design.

Jan Rietveld was a graduate of the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam, which was founded in 1949 by Bernard Bijvoet, an architect who was heavily influenced by modernist thinking. Voorafgaand aan zijn zelfstandige praktijk deed Rietveld ervaring op bij vooraanstaande bureaus als Van Tijen & Maaskant, Brinkman & Van den Broek, en in het bureau van zijn vader. These years have a stable basis for their own style in view.

In 1947 Rietveld worked as a self-employed architect. Hij ontwierp voornamelijk vrijstaande woonhuizen, vaak met a integrated practical training, which destijds an innovative oplossing was for the combination of wonen and works. The design has a two-dimensional relationship with the Nieuwe Bouwen and the Heldere, functional prior mentality of the two fathers. Strakke lijnen, open plattegronden and a sober materialization of this material is noticeable for this work. One of several large building projects is in the Westerland Flat in Amsterdam; large-scale opdrachten bleven verder uit, wellicht omdat zijn voorkeur uitging toar de menselijke maat van de individual woning.

Naast zijn architectural practice was Rietveld active in the intellectual and educational landscape of the naoorlogse Nederlandse architectuur. In 1947 and 1959, he was involved in the progress of Amsterdam's architect group De 8, in the city of De Opbouw in Rotterdam, both platforms were new ideas over the building and the architect was developed and built.

His talent for passing on knowledge of his talent is a well-known lecturer. He died in 1951 and died in 1955. He was an interior designer at the art academy in Enschede. This was in three decades connected to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam as a lecturer in interior design and architecture. In 1970 he was born to the Buitengewoon hoogleraar at the Technical High School Delft, which he was bijdroeg at the Vorming van nieuwe generations architects.

Jan Cornelis Rietveld overleed op 17 December 1986 in Amsterdam. Zijn oeuvre - noted in its own language, functionaliteit and a respectful dialogue with the work of its vader in the Nieuwe Bouwen - laat zien hoe hij op modest maar betekenisvolle wijze a bijdrage leverde aan de Nederlandse architectuur. They are designed to be in the design and in many students who will inspire them.