Arts & Crafts Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arts & Crafts Architecture write by Peter Davey. This book was released on 1997-11-09. Arts & Crafts Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major survey of architects of the Arts and Crafts movement. This major survey gives an incisively critical account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the Arts and Crafts movement, which began in England and quickly influenced Europe and North America. It highlights the complex contradictions they tried to resolve in accommodating or rejecting the developments of the new machine age, and in meeting the cost of materials and craftsmanship, which forced them to work mainly for a wealthy elite class. This volume shows with enthusiasm and sophistication how the ideas of this fascinating movement influenced the California and Prairie Schools and Art Nouveau, and how it led ultimately to the development of neo-Georgianism and the growth of the machine-worshipping Modern movement after World War I.
Arts and Crafts Architecture
Arts and Crafts Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arts and Crafts Architecture write by Maureen Meister. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Arts and Crafts Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region's most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles in the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs based on historical precedent and the region's heritage while encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, as well as contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were in the styles they favored, they also were forward-looking, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England.
Toward a Simpler Way of Life
Toward a Simpler Way of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Simpler Way of Life write by Robert Winter. This book was released on 1997. Toward a Simpler Way of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anti-commercial and anti-modern, the California Arts and Crafts Movement drew upon the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. This book celebrates the Movement with chapters on architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan. 365 duotone photos.
Philip Webb
Philip Webb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philip Webb write by Sheila Kirk. This book was released on 2005-04-15. Philip Webb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph explores the important work of Philip Webb, an influential architect and one of the founding fathers of the arts and crafts movement.
Edward Prior
Edward Prior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edward Prior write by Martin Godfrey Cook. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Edward Prior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in his houses, and published what is still the seminal work on medieval gothic art in England in 1900. Highly regarded by critics such as Ian Nairn, Prior is sometimes considered to have narrowly missed out on a place in the architectural pantheon of his age, alongside contemporaries such as Charles Voysey and William Lethaby. The result of extensive archival and field research, Edward Prior - Arts and Crafts Architect sheds new light on Prior's architecture, life and scholarship. Extensively illustrated, it showcases Prior's work in colour, including many of his architectural drawings and photographs of most of his extant buildings. Prior is the missing link of the Arts and Crafts Movement, in both a theoretical and a practical sense, as he was possibly the only practitioner who genuinely translated the artistic theories of Ruskin and Morris into architectural reality. He went on to found the School of Architecture at the University of Cambridge in 1912. Extensively illustrated with 200 colour illustrations including many of his architectural drawings and photographs of most of his extant buildings.
