Schroder House
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 | Schroder House |
| Designer | Gerrit Rietveld |
| Location | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Date | 1924 to 1925 |
| Building Type | house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | with Mrs. Schroder-Schrader. composition of abstract planes, with projecting roofs and balconies. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Schroder_House.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House) |
| UNESCO State Party | Netherlands |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii |
| UNESCO Site ID | 965 |
| Year of Listing | 2000 |
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Commentary
"Gerrit Rietveld worked closely in collaboration with the client for this house. More than any other, this is either—in Banham's words—'a cardboard Mondrian' or an enormous piece of furniture masquerading as a house. All windows could only be opened up completely, at right angles to frames, repeating the devices by which the upper floor could be transformed from one single space into a series of smaller ones—the point being that in either positioning of windows or moveable walls, the house retained its neoplastic hypothesis."
—David Dunster. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century Volume 1: Houses 1900-1944. p24.
The Creator's Words
"No one had ever looked at this little lane before this house was built here. There was a dirty crumbling wall with weeds growing in front of it. Over there was a small farm. It was a very rural spot, and this sort of fitted in. It was a deserted place, where anyone who wanted to pee just did it against this wall. It was a real piece of no-man's-land. And we said, 'Yes, this is just right, let's build it here.' And we took this plot of ground and made it into a place with a reality of its own. It didn't matter what it was, so long as something was there, something clear. And that's what it became. And that's always been my main aim: to give to a yet unformed space, a certain meaning."
—Gerrit Rietveld. from Paul Overy, Lenneke B�ller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. p52.
"...We didn't avoid older styles because they were ugly, or because we couldn't reproduce them, but because our own times demanded their own form, I mean, their own manifestation. It was of course extremely difficult to achieve all this in spite of the building regulations and that's why the interior of the downstairs part of the house is somewhat traditional, I mean with fixed walls. But upstairs we simply called it and 'attic' and that's where we actually made the house we wanted."
—Gerrit Rietveld. from Paul Overy, Lenneke B�ller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. p73.
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Rietveld Schröder House
The Rietveld Schröder House () (also known as the Schröder House) in Utrecht was built in 1924 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and her three children. She commissioned the house to be designed preferably without walls. The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building. Mrs. Schröder lived in the house until her death in 1985. The house was restored by Bertus Mulder and now is a museum open for visits. In the year 2000 it was placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Architecture
The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The two-story house is built onto the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighbouring buildings.
Inside there is no static accumulation of rooms, but a dynamic, changeable open zone. The ground floor can still be termed traditional; ranged around a central staircase are kitchen and three sit/bedrooms. The living area upstairs, stated as being an attic to satisfy the fire regulations of the planning authorities, in fact forms a large open zone except for a separate toilet and a bathroom. Rietveld wanted to leave the upper level as was. Mrs Schröder, however, felt that as living space it should be usable in either form, open or subdivided. This was achieved with a system of sliding and revolving panels. When entirely partitioned in, the living level comprises three bedrooms, bathroom and living room. In-between this and the open state is a wide variety of possible permutations, each providing its own spatial experience.
The facades are a collage of planes and lines whose components are purposely detached from, and seem to glide past, one another. This enabled the provision of several balconies. Like Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair, each component has its own form, position and color. Colors where chosen as to strengthen the plasticity of the facades; surfaces in white and shades of grey, black window and doorframes, and a number of linear elements in primary colors.
The house is situated in Utrecht in between ordinary terraced houses and along a motorway that was built in the 1960s.
World Heritage Site
The World Heritage Committee inscribed the Rietveld Schröder House on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites on 2 December 2000, during the 24th session in Cairns, Australia. The committee decided to apply criterion i and ii, and said about the house:
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External links
- Rietveld Schröder House
- Rietveld Schröder House at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Rietveld Schröderhuis at the Centraal Museum Utrecht
- Video tour of Schroder House
- Galinsky page, with photos
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Paul Overy, Lenneke B�ller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. Houten, The Netherlands: De Haan/Unieboek B.V., 1988. ISBN 90-269-4373-3. NA1153.R5R5413 1988b. discussion, p52.
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