6. Avant-garde and spiritualism: Rietveld's Schröder House
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De Stijl aesthetics
1. Universal machine aesthetic 2. A blurring of the difference between design and art(mergence of art and life) 3. A new utopian order -utopian vision of a future without social or aesthetic division 4. Absolve abstraction
Who is Theo van Doesburg?
the organizer of the Netherlands avant-garde group De Stijl, declared in 1924: "The new architecture is anti-cubic; that is, it does not seek to fix the various space cells together within a closed cube, but ... acquires a more or less floating aspect that, as it were, works against the gravitational forces of nature."
Neo-Plasticism
the revealing of underlying order and an art of pure relation
