立面(facade)是平面和线条的拼贴,其构件有目的地相互远离,看起来像相互滑过。这使若干露台成为可能。像里特费尔德的红蓝椅(Red and Blue Chair)一样,每个构件都有其自己的形式,位置和颜色。颜色被选作加强立面的可塑性;表面为白色而阴影为灰色,黑色的窗户和门框,以及一些在原色中的线性元素。
The Rietveld Schröderhuis in Utrecht is an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture and an outstanding expression of human creative genius in its purity of ideas and concepts as developed by the De Stijl movement. (...) With its radical approach to design and the use of space, the Rietveld Schröderhuis occupies a seminal position in the development of architecture in the modern age.