HOUSES 11 26 x 33" (86.7 x 66 x x 8 ⁄ 1 it Rietveld. Chair. Blue Red c. 1923. r Philip Johnson r f Ge Interior view.Interior nd. courtesy Photo Exterior view.Exterior nd. . chitecture and Design and Center, Study chitecture Gift o r A k. r useum useum o 83.8 cm). of The Museum Art, Modern New Y IMAGE 8: Painted wood,Painted 34 IMAGE 6: IMAGE 4: the ofThe Museum Art, Modern York New Photo: Kubitza. Manuel © 2004 Centraal M x 16 ⁄ 3 del. 1965. Wood, 19 x 30 echt o r t M Exterior view.Exterior nd. Centraal Museum. Interior view.Interior nd. courtesy Photo Art,York. New Gift of Mrs. B. Phyllis n (48.3 x 76.7 x 53.8 cm). Modelmaker: r um U e " Architecture and Design Center, Study Architecture 16 d ⁄ 3 o use he Museum ofhe Museum Art, Modern York New 21 IMAGE 7: Gerard van der Groenekan. van der Gerard of The Museum M Lambert.Artists Rights © 2004 Society (ARS), York/Beeldrecht,New IMAGE 3: Photo: Kubitza. Manuel © 2004 Centraal M HOUSE TWO: The Red and Blue House—Schröder House, Utrecht, House, Utrecht, Blue House—Schröder The Red and HOUSE TWO: 1924 The . Gerrit (Dutch, Rietveld 1888–1964), with Mrs. (Dutch, Schröder-Schräder Truss 1889–1985) IMAGE 5: the T 1 com- (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, The Rietveld SchröderThe Rietveld House rance did not face the main street but was but the main street did not face rance nt How would you describe the other nearby . the e uilt, ound this house ouse was b H r e hröd er looked at this little lane before this house was built here. this house was built at this little lane before looked er was a There v e d the architect, , design and furnishings a house to that would look at the setting ar f with a place a reality of it into and made ground its own. what it matter didn’t It on the righton of side the house, meadow. facing an open However, around the area ne ha ime the Sc a o d e e o ak the t

If you could choose a new location for the Schröder House,Why? would it be? what T this house to your own home or other houses you have seen? How would you compare and differences? the similarities are What Describe the Schröder House. Notice the shapes and colors. them? How would you describe If so,Do they repeat? arranged? and shapes the colors How are where? The floor space ofThe space floor 21 x 30', just measures House the Schröder distinctive it has some but the house: he and Mrs. for how the site explained chose Rietveld Schröder-Schräder Truss N dirty crumbling of wall with in front growing weeds it.was a small farm. there Over It was a very rural spot, and this sort of in. fitted was a deserted place, It [.of . piece .] a real no-man’s-land. said, we And ‘Yes, right, this is just let's it here.’And build this took we plot o was, as something was there, so long something clear. what it became. that’s And And main aim: been my always that’s unformed space, a yet to give to a certain meaning. homes? What kinds of comparisons can you make between the other buildings and the kinds of comparisons can you make What homes? Schröder House? cat Lenneke Büller,Lenneke Bertus Mulder, Oudsten, den Frank Overy, and Paul hich obstructed the house’s original view. obstructedhich the house’s t

1988), 52. 1. • • • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 7 3 through Images students your Show • A missioned lo changes. many through went House the Schröder example, For in 1963, was built a highway w ABOUT THE SCHRÖDER HOUSE ABOUT THE in 1924,Built Utrecht, in is located House the Schröder The Netherlands. The house was of and one its owner named after designers, the Mrs. Schröder-Schräder, Truss who unconventionally. and think live to children three and her her encourage Mrs. Truss role, a collaborative assumed Schröder-Schräder very with to closely working Rietveld of about the layout decisions make the house and the functions of the rooms. features, layout. an unusual including Mrs. When in the lived Schröder-Schräder Truss house with children, three her a studio, were there a library, as a that doubled a workroom room,maid’s floor. the ground on kitchen and an eat-in the floor contained The second living and dining areas, a stove, and the bedrooms. Mrs. and her Schröder-Schräder Truss had own their son rooms, a room. shared daughters two her and parti- sliding were There ones. smaller enclosed or spaces open large either create tions to was equipped room Each with its own sink, cupboard, and electrical prepare could members family outlet so that owntheir meals. more live to members family encourage to intended were These features independently.

HOUSES 12 HOUSES 13 (New York:(New Harry N. Abrams, ee or disagree? Why? ee or disagree? Do you agr eact if the Schröder House had just been ding to the amount of time you and your family ding to the amount of time you and your 2 eact the same way? Why or why not? How do you Why eact the same way? 3 would r s and classmates would r oom in your house? esponse to the above comment. s , time. and finish with the one in which you spend the least amount of gest r House was built,House with“break the past [and] critics praised its it for many r e how would they change accor Women and the Making of and the Making Women History A SocialArchitectural and the Modern House: russ Schröder-Schräder once described what it was like for her family to live to family her described for what once it was like russ Schröder-Schräder , T s. hröd Mr e. the Sc time you spend in them. If you could alter the size of the rooms How do they compare? r what was the matter. She sobbed, a lie, ‘I told because me, in that they said to live “You What is the lar What was it like to live in the Schröder House? What was it like to live in the Schröder e star r Create your own story.Create Consider that these comments about the Schröder House were the time it was built,made around in the 1920s. If you lived in the Schröder House today, do you think your neighbor Write a short essay in r When you are done with your list, are you When the amount versus think about the size of the rooms of in your home Make a list of all of the rooms in your home. a list of all of the rooms Make in which you spend the Start with the room most amount of time What do you think it would feel like to sit in this chair? like do you think it would feel What that you have seen? to other chairs How does this chair compare How would you describe this chair? How would you describe Rietveld’s commission of commission Rietveld’s designing all included of House the Schröder the furniture. spend in them? suppose your neighbor built in your town or city? Ibid., 79. Alice T.Alice Friedman, ft elebration of and abstract color form.” o 3. 2. in the Schröder House:in the Schröder the children. for so nice wasn’t “It daughter my occasion On one scarlet in the face, quite school from came home Hannecke crying out, eyes her so I asked he house”loony house.’ in that loony live that was very Something like and I said that I didn’t with.” cope to child a for hard • Although the Schröder House earned critical House Although acclaim, the Schröder chil- Mrs. Schröder-Schräder’s Truss classmates, their by teased often were dren house past the walked and neighbors frequently t 2. A c • 3. What would it be like for you to live there? • FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES FOLLOW-UP 1. and Mrs. Rietveld House, designed the Schröder When Schröder-Schräder Truss they made ofthe size the amount of to proportionate rooms the be spent in them. time that would • • • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 8 Image students your Show • ABOUT THE RED BLUE CHAIR ABOUT THE Originally mass-production, for intended earlier, an was based on Chair Blue Red Rietveld’s 1918.he had made around version unpainted this 1923 version, In the chair painted Rietveld withprimary the same earlier. years a crib usedfour on his son for he had built colors Although Mrs. of own pieces added her Schröder-Schräder Truss the house to furniture when it was completed, and design. colors house’s the match to painted they were Inc., 1998) , 85. was the name of a fine-arts magazine ears later,ears in 1964. Mrs. Shortly before Truss six y eath, d , style,”was“the the name of means in Dutch which a fine- n w De Stijl il his o eritage Site in 2000. eritage Site commissioned Rietveld to design and furnish a room for her. design for and furnish to a room Rietveld commissioned her After group. y ld H ive events of events ive I,War a new World developing that believed and its members r t the De Stijl group still have an impact on our lives today? Present your ideas your Present today? an impact our lives on the De Stijl still group have o trical balance. the chaot- to response also a direct was The De Stijl movement f ouse unt uc iginally a pharmacist. trained become to However, a lifelong she also cultivated W Dutch word meaning “the style,” “the meaning word Dutch r r De Stijl H o ts o A pened to the public as a museum. the public pened to the Schröder recognized Nations The United r r-Schräder’s death,r-Schräder’s in 1985, the municipality of to House the Schröder she donated est r r mme e e e o ff

Born in Deventer, The Netherlands), (now Holland in 1889, Mrs. Schröder- Truss Rietveld’s collaboration with Mrs.Rietveld’s was House the Schröder on Schröder-Schräder Truss ofmovement in a was also involved Rietveld artists, Dutch architects, and designers of the death After his wife, with Mrs. lived Rietveld in the Schröder-Schräder Truss hräd hröd hröd ouse as a

artistic a means of style represented rebuilding, and of a harmonic order. creating Rietveld’s design principles of many 8) incorporates (Image Chair Blue Red De Stijl. De Stijl: GLOSSARY RESEARCH PROJECT and (see the Selected Bibliography art on sites and architecture Web books and Consult of definitions section for in this guide) Resources “De Stijl.” the term who Find out the artists were, trying what they were achieve, to they lived. and when and where think Do you the e in a short paper. published in Leiden from 1917–1932. from published in Leiden of a group to also refers The term artists and archi- whosetects style of the use of was based on expression primary colors, shapes, rectangular and asy ic and d arts magazine and 1932. 1917 between published The De Stijl artists’ a develop aim was to visual ofpure language expression, and, House, as can be in the Schröder seen to they liked 8, designs in their (see Image use basic forms and colors Chair, Blue Red Rietveld’s for of example another De Stijl). Sc in art,interest architecture, literature, and politics.An, sister older Her a writer, introduced writers, other to her politicians, and artists, of members including the De Stijl group.1911, and married Schröder, Frits Utrecht to Mrs. moved In Schröder-Schräder a lawyer, Truss and in 1921 the ABOUT GERRIT RIETVELD AND MRS. TRUSS SCHRÖDER-SCHRÄDER RIETVELD AND ABOUT GERRIT ofThe son furniture-maker, a Gerrit was born in Utrecht, Rietveld The (now Holland Netherlands), in 1888. old, years twelve he was When in his father’s work to opted Rietveld of instead workshop school. attending taking architecture included Other experiences at night as a draftsmanclasses a jeweler. for working and his own opened 1917 Rietveld In business,furniture-making footsteps. following in his father’s later, years Seven he turned full-time. architecture to design. building his first represents House The Schröder ofthe first many. with collaborated Mrs. He and architectural on Schröder-Schräder Truss his life,design throughout projects years. several for home in her an office maintaining He also designed schools, churches, stores, furniture, in Vincent and the Amsterdam, with in collaboration a project architects. other called the death,husband’s in 1923, Mrs. built. home a new have to decided Schröder-Schräder Truss was completed, House the Schröder Once in 1924, sixty for years. there she lived Sc Sc Utrecht. its original as possible to as closely condition, The house was restored and in 1987 it was o H

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