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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. ...

Bauhaus Dessau, located in Dessau, Germany.  The building was commissioned by the city of Dessau, and designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus. The construction was begun in autumn 1925, and signed off in December 1926. The total area of Bauhaus contains approximately 256,000sq-ft of floor space. The time was after WW1. The Weimar Republic united the Germany. The Bauhaus had been developing by the government. There was a Bauhaus located in Weimar founded in 1919. The students produce their new designs and create exhibition in Bauhaus. Many purchasers form the west came to Bauhaus to order their designs. Sounds like the Bauhaus Weimar was very successful during the period. However, the school funding had cut off by the education department because of the political issue. The Bauhaus Weimar had closed in 1925. And the School were looking for alternative sources of funding for continue the school. Then they have moved to Dessau to continue their business. The...

This building was a masterpiece done by Gustav Klimt, one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style. It is even on the national side of the Austrian coin (.50). The Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffman. Because Vienna was becoming a growing metropolis and it was supposed to be represented that way. They were inspired by arts and craft and organic geometries, essentially an abstract architecture. The building has a covered courtyard structure, it provided for gallery space on all sides of a large top-lit rectangular exhibition hall in the center. The materials used in this building was mainly masonry and metal. the crowning element sketched by Klimt included a perforated metal dome, suspended between four pylons and set above profiled planar masses. The slogan of the Secessionist movement is written above the entrance of the pavilion: "To every age its art, to every art its freedom”. Below the motto, the...

Palais   Stoclet   (Brussels, Belgium): 1911   The  Stoclet  Palace is a mansion in Brussels, Belgium. This   area is   considered one of the most elegant and green residential communes in the whole country.   It   was built more than 100 years  ago. The estate has an impressive 8,600 square  meters.   Also, the two   facades are about 10 meters   high with a   20-meter   stairwell   tower. It   rese mbles   the towers of the B elgian   city   halls. The palace was   built by architect Josef Hoffman. Josef Hoffman was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods who co-established Wiener  Werkstätte . The palace was built for banker and art lover  Adolphe   Stoclet  between 1905 and 1911. Adolphe  Stoclet  was a Belgian engineer and financer. He is most  famous for  commissioning  the palace. The  Stoclet's ...