ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT

Philosophy and Background

▪The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the late nineteenth

century by a group of British artists and social reformers.

CHARACTERISTICS

▪The movement redefined the role of art and craftsmanship.

▪For the Arts and Crafts architect, beauty resided in line,

proportion, texture, workmanship, and most of all in

appropriateness.
REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Due to the Industrial revolution effect, mass
productions resulted to “one size fits all” product
▪answer to society’s needs in relation to manufacturing of
materials
▪manufactured objects designed for human use even though
produced in factories
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

▪The arts and crafts movement was initially founded

upon a strong love of England and all things English, and
nowhere is this more readily apparent than in the
architecture of the period.
CHARACTERISTICS
▪Raw, truthful materials with a focus on their natural
qualities.
▪Simple forms that hero and celebrate the construction of
the object.
▪Designs, motifs, and patterns inspired by nature.
▪Vernacular designs focused on traditional disciplines and
techniques
RED HOUSE is a

▪asymmetrical, L-shaped house,

built of warm red brick in a scaled
down Gothic style.

▪Has a great arched entrance

porch and steep irregular gabled
roofs topped with tall
idiosyncratic chimneys and a
RED HOUSE
weathervane ornamented with Architect-Philip Webb

the initials WM.

Webb’s design provided four good bedrooms,
another tiny one, and a partitioned dormitory for
the cook and two maids at the far end of the
western wing.
Intended to be the ‘most beautiful
room in England’, the drawing room
is possibly the most famous room of
the house.
Many of the original
paintings and designs
created for the interior of
Red House by Morris can
still be seen.
The Church of All Saints, Brockhampton,
Herefordshire (1901-) has been called “one of
the greatest monuments of the Arts and Crafts
movement.”
 •All Saints has a
central tower and
a short south
porch tower with
half-timbered bell
stage.
Church of All Saints, Brockhampton,
Herefordshire by W.R. Lethaby, 1902 -, •The church itself
is thatched and all
is of the Arts &
Crafts period.