CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Context: An overview of ideologies and design attitudes in Europe 1.1. Architectural styles and periods 1.2. The first modern ages and their reverberations 1.3. Industrialization and its impact on architecture 1.4. Dipolar architectural responses to industrialization 1.5. Abstract art movements parallel to De Stijl 2. De Stijlan Ideology: Influencing aspects and the resultant philosophies 2.1. A brief on De Stijl movement and its thinking 2.2. The parallels and factors in originating De Stijl 2.2.1. The circumstances of time 2.2.2. Dutch landscape and man-made geometry 2.2.3. Dutch Calvinism, spiritual discipline and orthodoxy 2.2.4. Inclination towards Theosophical thinking 2.2.5. Cubism and reduction of form to geometric elements 2.3. The principles and philosophical premise of De Stijl 2.3.1. Towards universality + Suppression of individualism 2.3.2. Social, utopian, philosophical approach to aesthetics 2.3.3. Methodology and idiosyncrasy 2.3.3.1. Neo-Plasticism and its stylistic characteristics 2.3.4. Internationalization of De Stijl 3. De Stijl and Architecture: Interpretation and manifestation of ideology in architecture 3.1. Towards Neo-plastic architecture 4. De Stijl: Representative architectural resolution Schrder House by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld 5. Conclusion Bibliography Illustration sources Appendix I Appendix II Acknowledgements