Description - Toward a Simpler Way of Life by Robert Winter
This volume celebrates one the most enduring themes in American architecture: California's "Arts and Crafts Movement". Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of American society. Anti-commercial and anti-modern, Arts and Crafts practitioners drew on the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. Most chapters in this text focus on one building by a particular architect or designer and illustrate the person's development and influences. Familiar architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard and Julia Morgan are included as well as lesser-known names from the movement. These architects designed houses to complement nature rather than to contrast with it.
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