Architectural And Spatial Comparisons Found In Rietveld’s “schroder House”, Katsura Palace, And The Work Of Mondrian

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...Rietveld was part of an art movement in the Netherlands in the 1920s called De Stijl (The Style). One of the movement’s co-founders was artist Piet Mondrian, also from the Netherlands, whose work such as Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue emphasized the use of universalism, geometric forms and primary colors in addition to black and white in the creation of space. While Mondrian was primarily concerned with how his two-dimensional paintings could expand to include the interior environment which surrounded them within a room, Rietveld took the ideas proposed by the De Stijl movement into the architectural designs of homes. One of the best examples of Rietveld’s designs is found in Schroder House (1924) in Utrecht in which the use of creating space using geometric shapes, planes, primary colors and movement of walls is applied. Rietveld allows for the light from the outside to come into the house adding to the creation of space through the play of light...

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