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Schroder House The Schroder house was built in 1924 by architect Gerrit Rietveld. It was commissioned by Mrs. Truus Schroder to shelter herself and her children in the Netherlands . It is a small one family house, with a flexible interior, spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities. The Schroder house plays a part in the modern movement as it was a masterpiece and that cleverly expresses its ideas and concepts developed by the De Stijl movement. The planar qualities were used to derive interior spaces and also creating different armature per floor. The Schroder house is the only house that was designed and strictly followed the De Stijl style which was marked with primary colors that can be seen throughout the entire building. The small two-story dwelling had 2 stories, the first floor is the public and transformable area with all the necessary living spaces while upstairs were more private separated by portable partitions. ...