Truus Schröder-Schräder
Truus Schröder-Schräder sitting in a comfortable chair -
looking out of the corner windows, which she had just opened
for us - in her 'Rietveld House'. (photo©Lucien den Arend)
I had brought a maquette of my studio which a very capable
student of mine had built according to my design, at the Royal
Academy of Art in The Hague.
In 1980 I had telephoned with Truus Schröder-Schräder about
an earlier design of mine for a
studio constructed from two concrete shells; knowing that
Rietveld had drawn a side view of her house with the roof of
the neighboring house seemingly on top of it, I had asked her
if that indeed was to help the building inspectors of the city
of Utrecht think that it had a roof (a house without a slanted
roof is still not always easy to get permission for in Holland).
This was the case. I wanted to know if my plan could work that
way also. But my designs changed and I wanted to show her the
result.
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