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The Schroder home in Ritterfeld, also known as Schröder House. It located in Utrecht, The Netherlands and designed by Dutch architect Herit Ritterfeld. Rietveld was built the project as a residential building for Mrs. Truus Schröder- and his three children in 1924. The project is one of the best examples of the "De Stijl" building, and it also the only authentic Dutch-style building. Mrs. Schroder lived in the house until her death in 1985. The house was restored by Bertus Mulder and open to the public. This two-story house was built at the end of a row of terraced houses, but it did not try to connect with its neighboring buildings. The flexible space has no hierarchy in the floor plan. The structure of the house is reinforced concrete slab and steel. Walls are made by bricks with paints. Those window frames, door frames and flooring are made by wood. The building interior space has flexibility has showed distinguishable and unique on every level. The ground floor i...

End of the line The schroder house located in the Netherlands was built by Gerrit Rietveld in 1925. The building is at the end of a set of row blocks. The house was the last house of the row on the block. This house was the only building designed in complete accordance with the De Stijl style which used primary colors. The house built was very unique and stood out in its surroundings. A widow commissioned Rietveld to build her a new house for her and her three children after her husband died. She wanted a smaller home that was more functionable. “ When her husband died in 1923 after a prolonged illness, she was unable to remain living in such a big house”.  Mrs Schroder knew Rietveld before hiring him to build the now famous house that is the Schroder house in the netherlands. “She had confidence in Rietveld’s ability as he had already created a room for her in the house on Biltstraat so that she had her own space in such a huge pl...

East Elevation After observing Frank Lloyd Wright’s building through paper Robert Van’t Hoff traveled to America, where he visited the Midway Gardens, Taliesin, the Larkin building and the Oak Park home. When he traveled back to Europe he had a new ideology on what future architecture should be. Creating the Villa Henny put him on the map for international fame.  A year after the Villa was completed, he met Theo Van Doesburg. Together they started the De Stijl Magazine writing articles of the future of architecture, along with Jan Wils and Antonio Sant’Elia. Van’t Hoff renounced being an architect and continued as a furniture designer in Hampshire, England in 1937. Robie House- Frank Lloyd Wright Inspiration  The Villa Henny was originally for A. B. Henny, who was a businessman, but before the house was even finished he sold it to another resident. It is hard to classify the house to just one style, since it gets its abstract structure from De Stijl, which we know ...

Le Corbusier began to study purism as he looked into the house as a “machine for living.” Maison Citrohan was the last of three prototypes, as he looked into a house with double height spaces that would function seamlessly with the daily lives of its inhabitance. The three prototypes were the Domino house, the Monol house, and finally Maison Citrohan. The way the house would function as a machine is how they were built, in series. Le Corbusier was interested at the time in industrialization and the machines that began to mass produce products, and he wanted to do the same for homes, but in doing so he also wanted to contain the humanist expression inside of the building.             Each house would include a double height space with two walls, which was inspired by his visual experience of space inside of popular Paris bars. The houses would include a mezzanine and have a large light near the darker areas light did n...