The Brick House by Mies van der Rohe is often compared to an abstract De Stijl painting.  Radical for its time, the plan replaces traditional box-like rooms with flowing space.  Walls project out into the landscape, suggesting the further flow of interior space into the outdoors.  With only two exceptions, exterior corners are formed by a brick wall intersecting glass, thus recalling Vermeer’s window.  These corners would at once recreate his characteristic wash of light and invite the eye of the occupant to follow the opaque walls’ real (in some cases) or imagined projection into exterior space.  The house would not only have admitted light like no other of its time, but would have created an unprecedented sense of spatial release