Marco Cheung - Design Foundations

Graphic form analysis of
geometry, structure, circulation, public / private / semi-private-public space, relationship to site

Gerrit Rietveld's
Schroeder-Schrader House
Utrecht, 1924

Photography by Stijn Poelstra

from https://www.archilovers.com/stories/27133/iconic-houses-rietveld-schroder-house.html

Deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site,
the Rietveld Schröderhuis in Utrecht was
commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder,
designed by the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, and
built in 1924.

One-family house
Flexible interior spatial arrangement
Visual and formal qualities
Inside-outside connection windows

De Stijl (The Style)

Ideals of artists and architects in Netherlands in 1920s
Made famous by Piet Mondrian
Notable for use of primary colors and geometric shapes

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl

Pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to essentials of form and color
Simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal
Only black, white, and primary colors
Countermovement and reaction to "Modern Baroque"

De Stijl Manifesto

1. There is an old and new consciousness of time:
The old is connected with the individual.
The new is connected with the universal.
The struggle of the individual against the universal is revealing itself in the world-war as well as in the art of the present day.

2. The war is destroying the old world with its contents:
individual domination in every state.

3. The new art has brought forward what the new consciousness of time contains:
a balance between the universal and the individual.

4. The new consciousness is prepared to realize the internal life as well as the external life.

5. Traditions, dogmas, and the domination of the individual are opposed to this realization.

6. The founders of the new plastic art therefore call upon all, who believe in the reformation of art and culture, to annihilate these obstacles of development, as they have annihilated in the new plastic art (by abolishing natural form) that, which prevents the clear expression of art, the utmost consequence of all notion.

7. The artists of today have been driven the whole world over by the same consciousness, and therefore have taken part from an intellectual point of view in this war against the domination of individual despotism. They therefore sympathize with all, who work for the formation of an international unity in Life, Art, Culture, either intellectually or materially.

8. The monthly editions of 'The Style', founded for that purpose, try to attain the new wisdom of life in an exact manner.

9. Cooperation is possible by contributing to 'The Style'

From Wikipedia

From https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/03/21/de-stijl/

From https://hetorigineel.nl/tentoonstelling-dutch-design-en-stijl/

Schröder House, floor plans, 1924 (image: Jchancerel, CC BY-SA 4.0)

3D Model from Ben P, 2014,
Retrieved from
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/5dc79365e92b5cf6e3e907501ec74844/Rietveld-Schr%C3%B6der-House-interior-included?hl=en