HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

1. Arts and Crafts

2. Arts and Crafts
Until the end of the 19th century the rapidly growing cities (due to industriali-
zation and capitalism) were dominated by buildings with facades in „Neo-
Styles“.
The reality of the towns were accumulations of similar-looking apartment-
blocks with several backyards......badly lit and ventilated.
The Arts and Crafts movement around the designer William Morris, the
architect Philipp Webb and the theorist John Ruskin rejected the industrialization
and its effects on architecture and art by prefabrication and mass production

3. William Morris: “I do not want art for a few“
It favored a turnback to a medieval craftsmanship – concerning architecture and art.
Purpose was to supply the daily life of people with quality-products in order to
prevent the spoil of aesthetics by industrial produced goods.
It favored traditional forms, materials and techniques in architecture, for example
the English cottage surrounded by garden.
Philipp Webb, fireplace, 1859

4. Philipp Webb, tiles for fireplaces, 1862

5. Ford Madox Brown, chair, 1860

6. Philip Webb, Red House (house of William Morris),
Bexley Heath, Kent, 1859-60

7. Philipp Webb, own house at Sussex, 1892

8. Norman Shaw, house at Hampstead, London 1885

9. William Morris: “I do not want art for a few“
It favored a turnback to a medieval craftsmanship – concerning architecture and art.
Purpose was to supply the daily life of people with quality-products in order to
prevent the spoil of aesthetics by industrial produced goods.
It favored traditional forms, materials and techniques in architecture, for example
the English cottage surrounded by garden.
Philipp Webb, fireplace, 1859

10. Ebenezer Howard, garden-city project
1898
Garden City movement

11. Samuel Newson, George Bowman house, San Francisco 1892

12. Willis Jefferson Polk, Williams House, San Francisco 1892