Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Schroder House

This post is a place to collect photos and notes about Gerrit Rietveld's Schroder House, which has been a looming, unfocused mental model for me whenever I think of "architecture."
Gerrit Rietveld designed this home in 1924 for Mrs. Truus Schroder-Schrader.
The house is prime example of the De Stijl style (De Stijl means The Style, so it's a soup du jour of the day situation.)

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