Trans d assignmnet

• modern environment
• free of the oppressive traditions and rules
• social and architectural
• one must construct an environment as one constructs a life-thoughtfully and deliberately
• feminism
• focus on domesticity
• active, mobile space
• public/private
• inside/outside

Friedman argues that Truss Schroder played a critical role in Rietveld's design for her house. What role did Schroder play, according to Friedman? 

o   She had strong and specific ideas about early childhood, open space and modern family. That helped to create and shape an elaborate design that fit the program.

• Based on Friedman's essay, what is the program that defined Rietveld's design? Language Diagram: Make a list of its defining actions/ relationships in one column and their associated spatial qualities, including light, enclosure, threshold & boundaries, intensities of occupation, etc. in a second column.

o       Defining actions/relationships	o       Spatial qualities	o       Specific features
o       Family can be brought together in one open space, gathering o       Wide-ranging conversations rearranging, intergenerational connecting redefining relationships between family members disassembling/reassembling o       Focused and aware  activities	o       Truus wanted to live in close association with her children – enclosed space expanding and contracting space, framing, suggestion of space a lack of hierarchy heightened visibility	o       Second floor: Truus’s room, the children’s bedrooms, and a large living and dining area (one large space that can be partitioned by thin, sliding panels) o       First floor: studio, library, eat-in kitchen (small and separated by traditional fixed walls) a low shelf along the wall in the main living area used as a desk where the could do their homework together o       lack of walls, fewer divisions o       opening and closing partitions, shifting enclosures primary colors

• How did Rietveld's design accommodate this program? In a third column, list specific features of Rietveld's architectural design in relation to specific aspects of the program and its required spatial qualitities.

• How did Rietveld's design create opportunities for events that were unanticipated by the prescribed program?  

o   White stripe on the floor was always getting dirty so children were jumping over it and considered that a play. Practical issues with the white stripe created an addition to the program that no one thought about