PLATE 1 Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder

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TitleSchröder House

Creator nameRietveld, Gerrit ThomasSchröder-Schräder, Truus

Creator nationality/cultureDutch; Dutch

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1923–1924

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUtrecht, Netherlands

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSchroder Huis (Utrecht, Netherlands)Architect-designed housesArchitecture, Domestic

StatusAlternate spelling: Schroeder House

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Introduction

Alina Payne

From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

In 1908, Adolf Loos wrote his essay “Ornament and Crime.”Adolf Loos’s “Ornament and Crime” is traditionally dated to 1908. The dating of Loos’s writings is...

Author

Alina Payne

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-24

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00236.001

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Modern--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Le Corbusier, 1887-1965Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955BauhausObject (Aesthetics)Decoration and ornament, Architectural--20th century

2. Family Matters: The Schröder House, by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder

Alice T. Friedman

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

No matter how many times one has visited the Schröder House in Utrecht, the Netherlands (plate 1), the sight of it at the end of Prins Hendriklaan is always a happy surprise. Compared to its somber neighbors, dark brick row houses that line the street in an orderly series of doors and windows, the Schröder House seems fresh, playful, and filled with the promise of new discoveries, as if it had been assembled from the parts of a child’s building toy. Metal strips, lengths of wood, and bits of …

Author

Alice T. Friedman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.65-91

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00177.004

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Chapter subject tags:Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas, 1888-1964Architecture, Modern--20th centurySchroder Huis (Utrecht, Netherlands)Schröder-Schräder, Truus, 1889-1985Architecture, Dutch--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Women architects--20th centuryDe Stijl (Art movement)

6. The Unhappy Consciousness

T. J. Clark

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

Once Upon a Time. When I first came across the lines by the duke of Aquitaine some years ago, naturally I imagined them in Jackson Pollock’s mouth. They put me in mind of modernism; or of one moment of modernism, which I realized I had been trying (and failing) to get in focus ever since I had read Harmonium or looked at Le Bonheur de vivre. Two things were clarified. Not just that modern artists often turned away from the detail of the world in order to revel in the work of …

Author

T. J. Clark

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.299-369

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.009

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Abstract expressionism--United StatesPainting, American--20th centuryArt criticism--United States--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994Fried, MichaelKrasner, Lee, 1908-1984Betty Parsons Gallery

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