What makes the schroder house an icon of the modern movement is its radical approach to design, the use of space, and the purity of its concepts . The rietveld schröder house constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The rietveld schröder house (dutch: The schröder house, gerrit rietveld's architectural equivalent of a mondrian canvas, seems as futuristic today as when it was built more . Quite literally so, because it looked out on .