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