New Architecture for a New Man. De Stijl and the Process of Redesigning Architecture in the Age of Modernism

Anna Wiśnicka

Vol. 20 (2011)

New Architecture for a New Man. De Stijl and the Process of Redesigning Architecture in the Age of Modernism

Anna Wiśnicka

Pages: 175 - 184

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Abstract

New Architecture for a New Man. De Stijl and the Process of Redesigning Architecture in the Age of Modernism

This article presents the activities of the De Stijl group that was active in the Netherlands after World War I in all its forms activities of artists, a magazine, architectural style. The ideas of De Stijl were created for a ‘new man’ — a man of modernity who was not afraid of the unknown. The Rietveld-Schröderhuis in Utrecht is the most visible example of the new thinking by De Stijl.

Published

01-07-2012

Citation rules

Wiśnicka, A. (2012). New Architecture for a New Man. De Stijl and the Process of Redesigning Architecture in the Age of Modernism. Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 20, 175–184. Retrieved from https://wuwr.pl/nwr/article/view/2998