The Schröder House - Gerrit Rietveld

traditional

...neighbourhood

de stijl

...principles

small

...scale domestic building

new world order/utopia

after war artists wanted to turn to a

Gerrit Rietveld

artist

truus schroder and three children

built for

white with accents of primary colours - colour restricted and controlled

colour

Mrs Truus Schroder

commissioned by

whitewashed slabs of concrete, grey concrete - two tone

concrete

traditional rooms downstairs - utrecht had administrations

conventional

1924

date

dutch modernism - abstraction, clarity, order

de stijl

depersonalisation, over personalisation, mechanical perfection over craftsmanship

de stijl favours

rejecting visible worlds style and expression - find spiritual purity -1917

de stijl talked about theosophy as a way of

wholistic building

designed furniture, making it as more

pure verticals and horizontals like landscape

dutch reference

red and blue chair

famous piece of furniture

rectilinear, recessed and protruding forms - asymetrical cubic construction

form

first floor

glass corners meet on

weightlessness

grey behind white slabs emphasises

kitchen, library, study, workroom

ground floor rooms

accordion walls - change spaces

interior innovation

extend living space, fusing interior and exterior

large windows

attick

less constraints on the top floor because it could count as

theosophy

links to spirituality called

Utrecht

location

isometric drawing - like design, not architecture

looks like a

brick and plaster walls, concrete foundations and balcony ,steel girdles and wire mesh for support

materials

pull screens and open/close space - transform interior at will

movable wall

modern architecture

movement

The schröder House

name

ornamentation

no

balconies

projecting

architect and client - inside and outside

represents collaboration between

esoteric

theology relates to

god's wisdom

theosophy means

seeking direct, but hidden God knowledge - explore divinity and hidden truths

theosophy was about

sliding partitions - open plan or divided into smaller spaces

top floor interior

furniture maker

trained as a

painted concrete, painted steel beams, glass

truth to materials

loosely related approaches to religion - meditative

what is esoteric

sickened by war

why did many artist have an interest in theosophy

neat without support

windows

support on street facade

yellow