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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

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