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Original Model of Home Theo Van Doesburg is best known as the founder of De Stijl, which was an artistic movement focused on the use of strict geometry in the horizontal and vertical axes. Neo-plasticism was the term coined for the abstract art practised within the circle of artists and architects of the De Stijl Movement.  Van Doesburg eventually designed his own live in studio-house. The Design consisting of simple primary colors and orthogonal elements its pleasing to the eye. Doesburg was not an Architect at the time and was assisted by a  draftsman who drew the construction documents with no design input. Van Doesburg designed every aspect of the home, including the windows, frames, doors, staircases, colors of the floors and stained glass window. The concept of two cubes which interlock was used, one being the studio, and the other being the living spaces. The front of the home is part of the “Residential Cube” is made up of a combination of vert...

 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...