On the way back from a second visit to Le Havre, (because of his own retrospective "An Hermetic Compendium"), again impressed by the enthusiasm of Pierre Yves Cachard, Mariina Bakic, Jean Michel Géridan and Jann Owens, among others, Richard Niessen fantasizes about a small-scale museum of graphic design in Amsterdam. Not long after, he focuses first on the building's five building blocks and designs a poster with them.
The Mechanics of the Mediating Discipline

Presentation at Loos 6
Wednesday 22 January 2025 16:00-18:00
The Repository of Porous Identities

Presentation at Loods 6
Saturday 14 December, 15:30-17:00
Workshop in Nautilus

Personal interpretations of the Amsterdam flag
10 November 2024
Lecture in Bucharest

Part of the Glitch Library Design Sessions
31 October 2024
Excerpt IV printed and distributed

Printed by RaddraaierSSP
25 September 2024
Contribution to literary magazine De Gids

A new Excerpt on design history
22 June 2024
UvA students visiting The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Class for Re-reading the Graphic Design Archive
23 April 2024
Audiotour on Sliding Drawer Tool Box

Streaming on Soundcloud
20 April 2024
Building Sets Storage drawer on display

Official opening Baggerbeest
1 March 2024
Publication 'An Alphabet of Cases'

To interest institutions at home and abroad
29 February 2024
Labyrinth of Scripts in MacGuffin Magazine

Issue number 13 on The Letter
15 December 2023
Sliding Drawer Tool Box

On display at Kunstverein's Salon Hang
9 December 2023
New address

Baggerbeest, Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam
1 October 2023
Summer Palace

Exhibition at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)
16 September 2023
Summer School

Workshop at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)
10 July 2023
Finisage of the exhibition in the Grote Kerk Breda

Wrapping up An Alphabet of Cases
18 June 2023
Posters 'An Alphabet of Cases' and 'The Bonus Room' selected

Exhinition in Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)
22 May 2023
Sliding Drawer Tool Box

Part of exhibition ‘Modern’ in Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
18 May 2023
Highlighted in several newspapers, blogs and on radio

The imaginary Palace discussed in various media
8 May 2023
The Palace of Typographic Masonry in the Grote Kerk Breda

Exhibition at the Grote Kerk Breda
22 April 2023
Opening The Palace of Typographic Masonry at the Grote Kerk Breda

With Floris Alkemade, Dennis Elbers, Marike de Nobel, Marieke Wiegel and Richard Niessen
21 April 2023
Salle de Jeux

Exhibition at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)
4 March 2023
Graphic Matters Kick Off

Lecture in Grote Kerk Breda
26 January 2023
Undeciphered Characters in The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Publication with 5 contributions
20 December 2022
Work done in the Department of Ornament

Publication with 3 additions
20 September 2022
Stampa!

The Typotectural Suites in W139
7 July 2022
Excerpts from ‘Facing the Palace floor plans’

Publication send to mailing list
5 November 2021
The Veranda of Floating Threads

Exhibition at The Representative Office, Amsterdam
4 September 2021
Palace posters in Chaumont's selection

Exhibition in Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)
21 May 2021
Opening An Alphabet of Cases

Lectures at Eyes on The Netherlands, Turin (IT)
16 May 2021
An Alphabet of Cases

Exhibition in Toolbox Coworking, Turin (IT)
16 May 2021
The Bonus Room in Nautilus Expobar

First drawer exhibited
24 February 2021
The Bonus Room

Outdoor exhibition in Amsterdam
24 February 2021
Memory Palace of graphic design

Lecture at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
7 December 2020
Test Press Sofia

Exhibition in Goethe Institute Sofia (BG)
14 November 2020
At the floorplan of the Palace

Publication send to mailing list
28 September 2020
The Unfolding Arch of Forging Fantasy

Published in Exploratorium for 21st Century
22 July 2020
Richard Niessen about The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Lecture at Zefir7, Stroom, Den Haag
18 February 2020
The Written Keystones

Published in Graphisme en France
2 February 2020
Test Press

Exhibition and lectures Enter Enter, Amsterdam
16 January 2020
Newsletter Stimuleringsfonds

Special Design
11 December 2019
Opening The Typotectural Suites

Exhibition at Alphabetum, West, Den Haag
29 November 2019
The key role of graphic design

Lecture at Integrated, Antwerp (BE)
6 November 2019
Screen printing technology and the workplace

Lectures at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam
25 October 2019
Opening The Modest Master's Mesmerizing Screen Print Shop

Exhibition at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam
25 October 2019
Symbolic language in Freemasonry

Lectures at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
4 October 2019
Opening Tracing Board Treasury

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
4 October 2019
Best Verzorgde Boeken

Exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
25 September 2019
The formative quality of graphic design

Lecture at De Monsterkamer, Amsterdam
20 June 2019
Dutch Design Awards Nominee

Exhibition at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
1 June 2019
Four palace posters in Chaumont

28th International Poster Competition
23 May 2019
Letters to the Minister

Wild posted in Chaumont (F)
29 May 2019
Reading the Letters to the Minister

Presentation at Common Inn, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
18 April 2019
Universal Languages

Lecture at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam
12 April 2019
The Annex of Universal Languages

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
12 April 2019
Hallway of Reflections

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
29 March 2019
An introduction to the Palace

Lecture at Letterspace, Amsterdam
13 February 2019
Le palais de la maçonnerie typographique

Exhibition at Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau (FR)
16 January 2019
La loge maçonnique

Lecture at at the Médiathèque A. Labarrère in Pau.
15 January 2019
The Palace of Typographic Masonry Bulletin Board

Exhibition at Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)
22 November 2018
Museums & Palaces

Lecture at Printroom, Rotterdam
14 December 2018
Workshop Von Wersin's Kitchen

With MKC Zeeburgereiland
19 November 2018
Team Thursday on ornament

Lecture at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam
16 November 2018
Opening Von Wersin’s Kitchen

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
16 November 2018
Mzin

Lecture at Main in Leipzig (D)
25 October 2018
Launch of the Palace book

Presentation at San Seriffe, Amsterdam
18 September 2018
The Chamber of Transformation at Weltformat

Exhibition in Luzern (CH)
18 September 2018
The Palace of Typographic Masonry - a guided tour

348 Pages read as a tour through the imaginary building
10 September 2018
Missing Notes

Guided tour at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam
30 June 2018
The Chamber of Transformation

Exhibition & performance at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam
22 June 2018
Six Palace Posters

Exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (USA)
19 February 2018
An evening in The Labyrinth of Scripts

Lectures by Uzume Wijnsma and Huda Abi Farès
17 November 2017
The Exchange Room

Lecture and presentation at Aga Lab, Amsterdam
10 November 2017
Workshop The Labyrinth of Scripts

With MKC Zeeburgereiland
10 November 2017
Opening The Labyrinth of Scripts

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
3 November 2017
Dutch Design Awards 2017

Exhibition at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
21 October 2017
Dutch Design Daily Live

Lecture in Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
9 October 2017
Typojanchi Talk

Lecture at Naver Connect Hall, Seoul (KR)
15 September 2017
Palatial Examples at Typojanchi

Exhibition at Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul (KR)
15 September 2017
Palace posters win in Chaumont

Third prize in International Poster Competition
18 May 2017
The Asemic Cabinet

Exhibition Radicale Sociale Animale Talen at Cobra Museum Amstelveen
24 May 2017
The Masonic Lobby

Exhibition at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam
14 April 2017
Play as protest

Lectures at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam
31 March 2017
The Theatre of Lead Characters

Workshop at Merz Academie, Stuttgart (D)
9 December 2016
Brno Biennial, Brno (CZ)

The Palace part of the 'International Exhibition’
16 June 2016
The Atrium of the Inhabitable Serif

Workshop at MICA, Baltimore (USA)
20 April 2016
Steinmetz Lecture

Lecture at MICA, Baltimore (USA)
19 April 2016
Richard Niessen Meets Euclid

Lecture at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (USA)
13 April 2016
Building blocks on the streets of New York

Palace poster representing the exhibition 'Beauty'
12 April 2016
Von Wersin’s Kitchen

Two day workshop and lecture at LSU in Baton Rouge (USA)
17 March 2016
Six Palace posters on view

Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York (USA)
12 February 2016
Rulers of Beauty

Poster design Cooper Hewitt museum, New York (USA)
20 January 2016
The Labyrinth of Scripts

Project at the KABK in The Hague
23 December 2015
The Masonic Lobby

Lecture at TypeAmsterdam
29 October 2015
The Gallery of Nostalgia & Modernity

The AGI-NL day @WDCD, De Balie, Amsterdam
21 May 2015
The Polarised Parlour

Presentation at The Debate, Wim Crouwel & Jan van Toorn at the Bijzondere Collecties
23 April 2015
The Gate of Cyphers & Codes in Lebanon

Workshop at the Lebanese American University, Byblos (LB)
18 March 2015
Pavilions of Honour at ECV in Bordeaux

A workshop dedicated to architectural tributes
16 February 2015
Seven Rulers Tracing Board

Presentation at the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
7 December 2013