Piet Mondrian's Contribution in Architecture

De Stijl :-

Red, yellow and blue rectangles and squares contained by thick black lines, or on a distinctly white background, is De Stijl, as we know it. The De Stijl art movement of 1917 to 1931 included paintings, architecture, furniture, and graphic design. It was based on the idea, or rather the principle, of absolute abstraction, which in lay terms means the elimination of all representational images to be replaced by straight lines, right angles, and the three primary colors. De Stijl art strikes a balance between unity and harmony, and this aesthetic became a way of life for many. As the movement developed, De Stijl became more than just an art movement, but rather a lifestyle.

Piet Mondrian’s Contribution in Architecture

Dutch painter and a leading innovator of the geometrical abstract style. Piet Mondrian came into contact with Cubism in Paris after 1911 and became associated with De Stijl in 1917. His pictures, at this period were characterized by vertical and horizontal lines distinguish rectangles which were painted in primary colors, black, white and grey. This geometry was much used by landscape architects and Piet Mondrian became a profound influence on modernist landscape architecture. Typically demarcations in paving patterns were formed with lines of bricks and the rectangles infilled with slabs, grass, water or planting.

Mondrian’s abstract, geometric, asymmetric, yet carefully and consciously balanced paintings, de Stijl has become important architecturally. Architects developed a new look for architecture, blocky and geometric, much like Mondrian’s paintings abstract forms. De Stijl architecture was often characterized as flat roofed, “asymmetrical, geometric”, and painted either white or different shades of gray which was in turn highlighted with the three primary colours conform to the De Stijl look. Some of the most famous buildings built within the De Stijl art movement were

п‚ÑŸ SchrÐ"¶der House,

п‚ÑŸ Van ’t Hoff’s Henny House,

п‚ÑŸ Wils’s 1918 cafÐ"©-restaurant De Dubbele Sleutel

After the First World War, construction of buildings and houses became a growing industry.