Christian Rietzke is an accomplished architecture and interior design practitioner and educator. With extensive industry experience, he brings a unique perspective, design sensitivities, and construction knowledge to achieve clients' goals.
His resume includes managing an extensive list of projects for boutique design firms in New York City, spanning from retail spaces to full building conversions, with a focus on sustainable adaptive reuse.
At VUW Studio, he led teams in visualizing notable projects like Moynihan Train Hall, UBS Arena, and 220 Central Park South.
As a professor in the Interior Design Department at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Mr. Rietzke develops and teaches courses on presentation techniques and construction. He has also served as a course coordinator and on curriculum committees. Demonstrating his commitment to education, he founded Matterscope, an extracurricular initiative for students to explore mixed reality in education, design, and presentation. In collaboration with students, he organized the VR component for Pratt's year-end shows from 2018 through 2021.
Christian Rietzke is a graduate of the architectural programs of Pratt Institute (M.Arch, Brooklyn, NY) and Münster School of Architecture (Dipl-Ing, Germany).
His work is published in Domus, Icon Design, the New York Times, Bloomberg, on Fox 5 News, and shown in several exhibitions.