This major survey gives an incisively crucial account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the Arts and Crafts movement, which started in England and quickly influenced Europe and North The usa. It highlights the complex contradictions they tried to unravel in accommodating or rejecting the developments of the new machine age, and in meeting the price of materials and craftsmanship, which forced them to work basically for a rich 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 the way it led in the end to the development of neo-Georgianism and the growth of the machine-worshipping Brand new movement after World War I.
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