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Architecture of the arts and crafts movement BY Davey, Peter by Davey, Peter., Peter Davey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book gives an account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the movement which began in England and quickly influenced Europe and America. It highlights the 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. It shows how the ideas of the movement influenced the California and Praire Schools and Art Nouveau and how it led to the development of neo-Georgianism and the growth of the machine worshipping Modern Movement after the Great War. We are at a stage in our own century which has interesting parallels with the period that gave birth to the Arts and Crafts movement. Many people, feeling alienated by the machine age and disenchanted with its products, are seeking inspiration from the craftsmanship of the past. At a time when scientific functionalism has been shown to fail and the society of conspicuous consumption is coming to an end the ideas and images of the Arts and Crafts Movement will be found to repay the serious study which this book gives them.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Davey, Peter., Peter Davey
- Publisher
- Architectural Press
- Published
- 1980
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780847803538
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Architecture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25