Rietveld Schröder House
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How it came to be
In 1924 Truus Schröder-Schräder asked the architect Gerrit Rietveld to design a small house on the edge of Utrecht for herself and her three children. She wanted a house with as few walls as possible, and the two worked on the design side by side.
The house was built against the wall of a brick neighbour, facing open land that stayed undeveloped because of 19th-century defence lines. The upper floor was declared an attic to satisfy fire regulations, but it is one open space that sliding and revolving panels can open up or divide. The house gave built form to the ideals of De Stijl, the Dutch art movement of the 1920s.
Mrs Schröder lived in the house until her death in 1985. It became a listed monument in 1976 and, after restoration by Bertus Mulder, a museum run by the Centraal Museum. It was inscribed in 2000.
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