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STIJL
Khushi shah- 18131157
Abra Khan - 18131104
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• De Stijl, or The Style, is an art
and design movement founded in
Holland by painters and architects
around 1917.
• The movement strives to express
universal through
concepts reduction,
abstraction,
elimination, simplification, and a
dynamic asymmetrical balance
of rectangles, planes, verticals,
horizontals, the primary colors,
and black, white, and gray.
• Designers formulate a new language and vocabulary for architecture.
• To do this, they take the traditional house apart, analyze it like an object, abstract
it to eliminate traditional references, and then reassemble it in a new way.
• The new form emphasizes the cube. It is not a solid box, but instead opens up
from outside to inside with solid and void relationships established through flat
planes.

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Henny House, Robert Vant

Hoff
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Schroder
House
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ARCHITECTURAL
CHARACTERISTICS
• Flat roof, asymmetry, geometric forms, white or
gray walls with details
highlighted by primary colors.

• Houses for individuals are the most important.

• Compositions generally emphasize the separation of planes, the application of

primary colors, and the spatial relationship of solids to voids.

• Rectangular shapes define the geometric repetition

of windows, doors, and blocks of color.

• Window sizes vary on an individual building from large to small. They may be
arranged in patterns or one unit on a large wall.

• Flat roofs are typical, and distinctly different from other structures.

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Interior of the Schroder

House
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SYMBOLS & MOTIFS DECORATIVE

ARTS
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beauty Stijl houses. Artwork is prohibited
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surfaces
detailing. in art.

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Interior of a Café showing

Decorative Art
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Decorative Art
Painting

Café showing
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