Located in Utrecht, Netherlands, this intriguing precedent was designed by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietvield in 1924. The client, Mrs Schröder-Schrader commisioned the house to be without a wall. The house is an example of De Stijl-architecture at which it was the only building with such architecture, unbeknownst why there was an architecture named after the artistic movement anyway (a specified architecture of a single building?). The house was resided by Mrs Schröder-Schrader and her three children after her death in 1985. The house was later restored by Berus Mulder as a museum.
The De Stilj, also known as neoplasticism artistic movement is widely known for its geometric and generic colours. The best interpretation of De Stijl movement is the painting Composition of Yellow, Blue and Red by Piet Mondrian, which basically resembles everything there is to the movement, literally, geometric components somposed in a random manner with unexplained blue, red and yellow used as some finishing touches.
The house is a two-storey house with the public area, consisiting of kitchen, dining, living area and a studio while the first floor was to be the private area, where the bedrooms are divided by portable partitions. This feature was generated so as to have big space for the children of the house to play and finally retreat in private at night.
The house is geometric, a repetitive feature that covers the entire precedent. Personally, t lacks innovation and creativity and with bright colours, it looks almost look like panels of mural canvas. That being said, the house has a great aesthetic appeal that makes it stand out in the suburban area of Utrecht, as to being small and simply unique and different. The house itself is not magnificent or totally awesome in a sense, but it does pass for a good architectured house. With common components of a usual house, it has features that set as the beginning of modernism. Apparently, modernism has come a long way till it reaches its peak where it is today.
The composition of geometric components may look a little bit at random, with touch of different colours on different components, which actually is strategically thought of. In example, the door area is painted black as it was the most accessible hence it was due to be soiled.
Though it was not one building that people will consider the building of the century, or remotely one could be influenced, it does have an appeal as one of the houses that have history within, a house that carries the art movement of De Stijl, as good as it gets. Comme Ci, Comme Ça.
Images taken from http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/schroder/index.htm
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