The house with moving partitions was designed in 1924 by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld who became a friend of Schröder's and an important influence on her future works.
In a personal interview with the International Archive of Women in Architecture, Schröder described the moving partitions are meant to be "the medium for dynamic flexibility", as a house is not supposed to be "a series of cubicles.
Thereafter she joined Rietveld's architecture firm where she worked on housing projects, schools, exhibitions, and the Sonsbeek Sculpture Pavilion.
[3] In 1962, Schröder designed a low-cost subsidized housing complex that maximized the use of small spaces using moving partitions for retired, single nurses in Austerlitz, a village in the Netherlands.
[2] After emigrating to the United States in 1963, Schröder worked at a couple architecture firms in California before being hired to teach in New York.