Building with Nature
Subtitle: Inspiration for the Arts and Crafts Home
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781586854638
Subjects: Architecture; Domestic; Arts and crafts movement; San Francisco Bay Area; History; Design & Construction; Architecture / Domestic; Architecture, Domestic; 19th century; California; Regionalism in architecture
First sentence: JOSEPH WORCESTER (1836-1913), REVEREND OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH AND THE MAN WHO GAVE the simple Arts &amp; Crafts house in northern California its initial impetus, was an architect by avocation, although he was not credentialed as one.
Description: This new edition of the classic, Building with Nature: Roots of the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition, focuses on the beginnings (1865 and on) of the Bay Area shingle style and Arts & Crafts collaboration in California, and the origins of the trend toward building simple rustic homes in harmony with nature. Freudenheim explores how and why a small, influential group of Californians (including Joseph Worcester, Bernard Maybeck, Charles Keeler, William Keith, Charles Lummis, A. Page Brown, and others) - all of whom had come from the East or from England - were especially devoted to Ruskin and the Arts & Crafts style and how this combined with their dedication to California's natural beauty to create a unique architectural movement.