{"id":47794,"date":"2025-04-24T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47794\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:54:13","slug":"step-inside-a-de-stijl-icon-though-david-altraths-images-of-the-rietveld-schroder-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47794\/","title":{"rendered":"step inside a de stijl icon though david altrath&#8217;s images of the rietveld schr\u00f6der house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Altrath photographs the rietveld Schr\u00f6der House<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>German photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/david-altrath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Altrath<\/strong><\/a> delivers a visual narrative of one of architectural modernism\u2019s most radical dwellings\u2014the Rietveld Schr\u00f6der House in Utrecht, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-the-netherlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Netherlands<\/strong><\/a>. Designed in 1924 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/gerrit-rietveld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gerrit Rietveld<\/strong><\/a> for the Dutch socialite Truus Schr\u00f6der-Schr\u00e4der, the home stands as a three-dimensional manifesto of the De Stijl movement. Through Altrath\u2019s crisp compositions, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architectural-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>series<\/strong><\/a> offers a fresh perspective on a house that, over a century later, still feels like it belongs to the future.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1129280 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"step inside a de stijl icon though david altrath's images of the rietveld schr\u00f6der house\" width=\"818\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de-stijl-icon-david-altrath-images-rietveld-schroder-house-designboom-05.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>all images by David Altrath<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>de stijl\u2019s legacy lives on in utrecht<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Altrath\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/davidaltrath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>images<\/strong><\/a> reveal the innovative structure of the residence, drawing attention to the relationship formed by the lines, planes, and bold primary colors that compose its visual language. With no fixed corners, sliding panels, and jutting planes, Rietveld dissolves the divide between inside and outside. Altrath casts his lens on this interplay of openness with precision, letting light and shadow animate the architecture\u2019s geometric rigor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The adaptable interior layout of the Rietveld Schr\u00f6der House, where walls move and rooms shift to accommodate daily life, comes alive through Altrath\u2019s series. His shots focus on the architectural decisions that challenged the rigid domestic norms of the 1920s, instead proposing a flexible, living architecture rooted in abstraction, freedom, and clarity. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, the dwelling is one of the few built expressions of De Stijl principles in architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1129283 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"step inside a de stijl icon though david altrath's images of the rietveld schr\u00f6der house\" width=\"818\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de-stijl-icon-david-altrath-images-rietveld-schroder-house-designboom-07.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>David Altrath delivers a visual narrative of one of architectural modernism\u2019s most radical dwellings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1129281 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"step inside a de stijl icon though david altrath's images of the rietveld schr\u00f6der house\" width=\"818\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de-stijl-icon-david-altrath-images-rietveld-schroder-house-designboom-06.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>the Rietveld Schr\u00f6der House in Utrecht was designed in 1924 by Gerrit Rietveld<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1129286 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"step inside a de stijl icon though david altrath's images of the rietveld schr\u00f6der house\" width=\"818\" height=\"1227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de-stijl-icon-david-altrath-images-rietveld-schroder-house-designboom-10.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>the home stands as a three-dimensional manifesto of the De Stijl movement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Altrath photographs the rietveld Schr\u00f6der House \u00a0 German photographer David Altrath delivers a visual narrative of one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[26082,16274,4021,4020,26083,4022,77,26084,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-47794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architectural-photography","9":"tag-architecture-in-the-netherlands","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-david-altrath","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-gerrit-rietveld","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114395405790407001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}