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| Architect | Gerrit Rietveld |
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| Location | Utrecht, The Netherlands map | ||||||
| Date | 1924 to 1925 timeline | ||||||
| Building Type | house | ||||||
| Construction System | steel beams and columns, wood & conc. | ||||||
| Climate | temperate | ||||||
| Context | suburban | ||||||
| Style | Early Modern | ||||||
| Notes | with Mrs. Schroder-Schrader. composition of abstract planes, with projecting roofs and balconies. | ||||||
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| Discussion | Schroder House Commentary
"Gerrit Rietveld worked closely in collaboration with the client for this house. More than any other, this is either—in Banham's words—'a cardboard Mondrian' or an enormous piece of furniture masquerading as a house. All windows could only be opened up completely, at right angles to frames, repeating the devices by which the upper floor could be transformed from one single space into a series of smaller ones—the point being that in either positioning of windows or moveable walls, the house retained its neoplastic hypothesis." —David Dunster. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century Volume 1: Houses 1900-1944. p24. The Creator's Words "No one had ever looked at this little lane before this house was built here. There was a dirty crumbling wall with weeds growing in front of it. Over there was a small farm. It was a very rural spot, and this sort of fitted in. It was a deserted place, where anyone who wanted to pee just did it against this wall. It was a real piece of no-man's-land. And we said, 'Yes, this is just right, let's build it here.' And we took this plot of ground and made it into a place with a reality of its own. It didn't matter what it was, so long as something was there, something clear. And that's what it became. And that's always been my main aim: to give to a yet unformed space, a certain meaning." —Gerrit Rietveld. from Paul Overy, Lenneke BŸller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. p52. "...We didn't avoid older styles because they were ugly, or because we couldn't reproduce them, but because our own times demanded their own form, I mean, their own manifestation. It was of course extremely difficult to achieve all this in spite of the building regulations and that's why the interior of the downstairs part of the house is somewhat traditional, I mean with fixed walls. But upstairs we simply called it and 'attic' and that's where we actually made the house we wanted." —Gerrit Rietveld. from Paul Overy, Lenneke BŸller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. p73. | ||||||
| Resources |
Sources on Schroder House
"The History of Interior Design", by John Pile, ArchitectureWeek No. 65, 2001.0905, pC1.1. Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. exterior perspective drawing, p43. A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com David Dunster. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Houses, 1900-1944. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1985. ISBN 0-8478-0642-1. LC 85-42945. NA680.D86 1985v.1. discussion, p24. Muriel Emanuel, ed. Contemporary Architects. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ISBN 0-312-16635-4. p669-671. Edward Ford. The Details of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. exterior photos, construction section/anonmetric details, p278-281. Highly recommended for serious observers, and available at Amazon.com Yetsuh Frank, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, January 1994. exterior eye level view photo. Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection. Udo Kultermann. Architecture in the 20th Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-00942-9. LC 92-26734. NA680.K7913 1993. exterior photo, f57, interior photo, f58, p62. Byron Mikellides, ed. Architecture for People. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-03-057489-7. LC 79-48067. exterior photo and comment, f8, p51. John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. exterior photo showing context, p234. Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com Paul Overy, Lenneke BŸller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. Houten, The Netherlands: De Haan/Unieboek B.V., 1988. ISBN 90-269-4373-3. NA1153.R5R5413 1988b. discussion, p52. Dennis Sharp. A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Architecture. Greenwich, Connecticut: William Heinemann Ltd/Secker and Warburg Ltd, 1972. NA680.S52. plan drawing of ground floor, p75. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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