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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...

The  Falling Water is a housing project design by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann’s family. The project is located 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is famous for its unique design concept - a house sit on above a stream and a waterfall, and the project has shown the appearance of Wright's concept "Organic Architecture": the structure has used cantilever with open plan design. In 1996, Falling Water was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Wright used to have a conflict with the Kaufmann’s family and consultation when he was designing the project. Furthermore, he wanted to follow his design philosophy and give up the project to  put pressure to the family to agree with him. Finally, they agreed and let Wright to produce amazing and stunning housing design to the world. The driveway passes through the forest and falls to approach the project. The bridge leads visitors to arrive the entrance. The falls has  set behind the ...

The Robie House is located next to the campus of University of Chicago, the district of southern Chicago. It was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright at Oak Park Studio from 1908 to 1909. The project was designed for Frederick C. Robie, which is a business person in Chicago. The Robie family moved in shortly after completing the project in 1910, but they sold the house due to financial issue. The Robie family lived here for only 14 months. The project was faced to tear down after the right had changed to several buyers. It has saved because of Wright and the people who related to the project. The house has operated and opened visit by The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The Robbie House is the great model of Prairie Style. And it has named as the pioneer of American Architecture Style. It has collected in National Historic Landmark in 1963. Based on the site of Robie House is 180 feet wide and 60 feet deep only, and it is located in the corner. The landlord required t...

The Rufer House ( Vienna, Austria ) 1922       The Rufer house was designed by architect Adolf loos. He was an Austrian and Czech architect and influential theorist. The house was designed for Josef and Mar ie   Rufer.   Josef Rufer was an Austrian musicologist.  This house was considered to be the first example of   Raumplan   which is a planning method based on discreet rooms. The house is considered like a cube with internal space of 10m by 10m. The exterior walls are load bearing which leaves the interior walls to partition space. A column runs through the whole house hiding the plumbing and also acts as framing for the second floor.  This system allows structural minimize   internal dividing walls, being replaced by thin walls.      The main entrance of the house is on ground level, slightly elevated above the natural ground level, giving access to the hall. The upper floors are   access ed   b...

The House by the Beach There is a tragedy that comes with E-1027, from the years that it took to built, to its slow deterioration from neglect and utter forgetness. House E-1027 was design, and constructed [with the help of a small local crew workers] by Eileen Gray in 1929, a time where been a women architect yet alone one untrained in the field of architecture was a pejorative term.  Yet again Gray in the process of building a summer getaway for her and her current lover (Jean Badovici) created one of the most important structures of architecture in the early 20th century. Locate in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin along the Côte d’Azur, Gray built an elegant minimalist villa on the shores of the Mediterranean. The only way to get to it been through lemon trees and banana palms, making it inaccessible by car. There on hillside you would see an all-white pastoral retreat "bathed in sunlight, freshened by breezes, and outfitted with sleek yet practical furnishings of leisur...

North Facing Facade  The Casino at Marino was one of the first Italian influences that reached Ireland’s architecture so successfully. This could have a great deal with the fact that Sir William Chambers, the architect, was living above Giovanni Battista Piranesi while living in Rome. Chambers did not start off this way, he was born in Sweden and was a merchant before becoming an architect. He was considered an architectural conservative because he used what he knew about Europe and the main concepts from Palladio to create his own designs. Some of his other works include the Somerset House, and the Duddingston House. Although, the Casino at Marino was so successful he never got to see the finished version of the building because he spent most of his time in England. Palladio had some basic elements that created Neoclassicism, which the Casino at Marino shared. The house got its name by Casino meaning “little house” and Marino “by the sea”. Although, it is not a...