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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. ...

 Café l'Aubette, Theo van Doesburg, (Strasbourg, France); 1927; De Stijil, the Avant-Garde in Modern Europe and the Emergence of the Modern Movement Concealed behind an 18th century Baroque façade in Strasbourg’s Place Kléber, the Café L’Aubette is a dazzlingly incongruous expression of the 1920s De Stijl movement.  Designed by Theo van Doesburg, one of the movement’s founders and leading lights, the Aubette’s minimalist, geometric aesthetic was heavily influenced by the work of contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian. In designing the café’s interiors, Van Doesburg sought to do more than simply place viewers before a painting; he wanted to envelop them in it. Van Doesburg saw in the cafe the opportunity to implement his own theories of Elementarism. Much like Mondrian, he designed in a purely rectilinear, orthogonal manner; the walls were covered in large grids of brightly colored rectangles. However, Van Doesburg did not rigorously bin...