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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. ...

The House with Moving Walls Built in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1925 The Schroder house stands as one of the first buildings constructed using the concepts of Neoplasticism. Design by Gerrit Rietveld on the commands of Mrs. Truus Schoder-Schrader and her three children the multifunctional home follows De Stijl's principles of harmonious order and also incorporates bold primary colors and geometric shapes [2]. The house is a representation of Piet Mondrian's style of De Stijl,   where he was known for his simply composed work of straight lines and three basic colors. The house mirrors his work in that it takes from his paintings such as " Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue " and creates a three dimensional rendition of it. The house stands at the end of a residential road completely on its own world compared to the buildings adjacent to it has two floors, a small garden, two terraces and a flat roof. Its striking appear...