Arts Crafts Architecture

Author : Peter Davey
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714837116
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts & Crafts Architecture written by Peter Davey and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1997-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Maureen Meister
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686644
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts and Crafts Architecture written by Maureen Meister and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Catherine Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750994428
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cotswold Arts and Crafts Architecture written by Catherine Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular precedent as it channelled their ideas and stimulated their imaginations. Its rational basis and dependence on craft skills had lasting value, and it was no coincidence that the most influential aspect of their work was its emphasis on conservation. The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds has attracted much interest in recent decades, the appeal of the simple life and of traditional values detached from the pressures of modern society having as much allure now as it did a century ago. Most of these studies have referred to the work of architects in the region, but the subject has not received the specialist attention it deserves. Until now. This book examines the impact of the Movement on the Cotswold landscape, on the survival of its building traditions and on modern attitudes to building conservation. After an introductory section which outlines the Movement's origins and beliefs and its architectural principles, the main part of the book provides a guide to the general characteristics associated with Arts and Crafts building in the Cotswolds. There are separate chapters on the various types of new commission that were undertaken, from small and large country houses and cottages to village halls and almshouses, not to mention the numerous repair and remodelling jobs on existing buildings that had become derelict following the social and economic upheavals of industrialisation. The final chapter looks at the late flowering of architectural work in the region during the interwar period and beyond, and the legacy of this important body of work at a local and national level.

Author : Trevor Garnham
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714838762
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts and Crafts Masterpieces written by Trevor Garnham and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These structures are all wrought by hands of architects who were well trained and fully cognizant of the relationships between art, architecture, sculpture and craft." - Introduction.

Author : Gustav Stickley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145719
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craftsman Homes written by Gustav Stickley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of "Mission-style" homes from The Craftsman (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony.

Author : Sheila Kirk
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Webb written by Sheila Kirk and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the important work of Philip Webb, an influential architect and one of the founding fathers of the arts and crafts movement.

Author : Peter Davey
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts and Crafts Architecture written by Peter Davey and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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 America. It shows how the ideas of the movement influenced the California and Prairie Schools as well as Art Nouveau. Second edition, originally published in 1995.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the Arts and Crafts Movement past and present, this new magazine celebrates the revival of quality and craftsmanship. Each issue is a portfolio of the best work in new construction, restoration, and interpretive design, presented through intelligent writing and beautiful photographs. Offering hundreds of contemporary resources, it showcases the work not only of past masters, but also of those whose livelihoods are made in creating well-crafted homes and furnishings today. The emphasis is on today’s revival in architecture, furniture, and artisanry, informed by international Arts & Crafts and the early-20th-century movement in America: William Morris through the Bungalow era. Includes historic houses, essays and news, design details, how-to articles, gardens and landscape, kitchens and baths. Lots of expert advice and perspective for those building, renovating, or furnishing a home in the Arts & Crafts spirit. From the publisher of Old-House Interiors magazine and the Design Center Sourcebook. artsandcraftshomes.com

Author : David Cole
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864707113
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Edwin Lutyens written by David Cole and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Edwin Lutyens is widely regarded as one of Britain's greatest architects. In a career of more than 50 years, spanning both the Victorian and Modern eras, Lutyens was prolific. His work ranged from great country houses, city commercial office buildings, his famous First World War memorials across Europe and Britain, and his magnum opus designs for New Delhi, built during the 1920s and 1930s. Lutyens' most celebrated works remain his magnificent country houses that so frequently adorned the pages of Country Life magazine, and in particular his houses of the period from the 1890s and 1900s. Sir Edwin Lutyens: The Arts & Crafts Houses brings together for the first time in new, wide-format all-colour photography, the definitive collection of over 40 of Lutyens' great houses, in which Lutyens ingeniously blended the style of the Arts and Crafts movement with his own inventive interpretation of the Classical language of architecture. The book features over 500 stunning current photographs, together with floor plans of the houses, and a fresh reinterpretation of Lutyens' enduring architectural genius."--

Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman written by Judith B. Tankard and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.