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This is a 10 page paper discussing spatial design used by Rietveld, Mondrian and Kobori Enshu. Architect, artist and designer Gerrit 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 on the walls and floors which have minimal decoration and are sparsely furnished to allow for an expansive creative space. The idea of universalism and geometric space to allow for the creation of space is not unique in architectural design and can be found as far back as the 1600s in Kobori Enshu’s design of the Katsura Palace in Kyoto which applied the creation of space with the tatami module design also using moveable walls and walls which opened to the environment for flexibility in space.
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"De Stijl" (The Style). One of the movements 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 Rietvelds 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 on the walls and
floors which have minimal decoration and are sparsely furnished to allow for an expansive creative space. The idea of universalism and geometric space to allow for the creation of space
is not unique in architectural design and can be found as far back as the 1600s in Kobori Enshus design of the Katsura Palace in Kyoto which applied the creation
of space with the tatami module design also using moveable walls and walls which opened to the environment for flexibility in space. Part 1: Rietvelds Schroder House and Katsura Palace
Designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) was born in Utrecht, Netherlands and became one of the founding members of the De Stijl ("The Style") movement based in Utrecht during the
1920s. His initial design of the Red Blue Chair (1917) signaled a radical change in furniture and architectural designs which led to several architectural commissions throughout the 1920. His designs
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