[PDF] Arts Crafts Architecture eBook

Author : Peter Davey
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1997-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780714837116

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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
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1611686644

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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 : Barbara Mayer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811802027

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Each chapter of this book examines a different facet of this aesthetic, beginning with its European origins and proceeding to American classics, including California's Mission style. The book highlights the work of such influential designers as Gustav Stickley, L & J.G. Stickley, Charles Voysey, Greene & Greene, George Ohr, Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Rohlfs, among others, and features Arts and Crafts standards, such as the Morris chair, the Stickley settle, the Tiffany lamp, and the Fulper bowl, all displayed in a variety of contemporary interiors.

Author : Trevor Garnham
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780714838762

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"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 : Martin Godfrey Cook
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1785000128

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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.

Author : Peter Davey
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Steven Paul Whitsitt
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764336706

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Tour sixteen beautifully restored homes built and decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, an early twentieth century movement to counter the increasing urbanization and mechanization of human life. Nearly 300 color photos detail links between nature and human skill, and capture architectural elements of the Arts and Crafts bungalow. This book is a must have for Arts and Crafts followers and ideal for all woodworkers, glass workers, masons, and collectors, offering insight and design inspiration through images of built-in cabinets, stained glass windows, brick fireplaces, and antiques displays.

Author : Sheila Kirk
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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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 : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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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.

Author : David Cole
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9781864707113

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"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."--