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Arts and crafts architecture Peter Davey

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Phaidon c1995 ISBN:
  • 0714837113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720 DAV
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 720 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000167768

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-250) and index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Davey is an architect, historian and journalist, and is Editor of the Architectural Review .

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