Rietveld Schröder House — Attraction in Utrecht

This is a very interesting house to visit and definitely a milestone in the development of open plan concepts in the 20th century. I think it shows that this was Rietveld's first house, and there are things about the design that are too fussy and go too far. However the idea of the flexible plan is quite exciting to see. Here are the points that cause me to mark it down a star. 1. The visit format doesn't give you a moment to yourself, there are always quite a few other visitors hanging around and it's hard to take good photos. 2. The audio tour format seems too detailed for a tour like this. If you could explore at your own pace it would work better. I skipped several of the tracks and my wife skipped it almost entirely. 3. It's relatively expensive unless you really want to see the central museum as well. You get much of the same experience from the YouTube video. I paid it happily but I struggled to get my wife to join me at that price. By contrast the cube house in Rotterdam is about a third to a quarter of the price and the visit format there is more flexible. Nevertheless if you enjoy a bit of architecture, this...

One star because of a stuff.

Great place with a discriminated staff.

Why great place: the house speaks for itself plus nice audio guide

Why a discriminated staff: It’s the 1st time for me to meet a Dutch like this. The woman who did the guide for the 2nd floor:

1. explained MORE for the group including Dutch people, in English (I stayed there for 2 guide rounds). This could be unintentional, sorry for the misunderstanding if so;
2. asked me to leave the 2nd floor when she finished the 2nd round floor guide. She said they need space for the traffic but I did not even finish the official audio guide for a round yet;
3. treated me of a DIFFERENT (impatient) attitude compared to someone speaking French (the staff can speak French) but I did nothing different from the others. Maybe I am...

the inside and outside of an iconic architecture. The entrance is worth it for a mind blowing moment. The reason why I took three stars away was due to a guide lady who stands in front of the house and reminded us like 5 times to not to touch anything in a passive aggressive way even though I indeed assure her multiple times that we WILL NOT touch any. I wonder if other visitors also hear like „thank you for not touching anything!“ at the end of their visit. In that moment I realised that she only had this attitude towards us who were not dutch. Me as someone who has been living as a foreigner here for decades know exactly what it feels like when locals treat me in this way and try to hide their inner-prejudice. It almost ruined our impression of this historical...