Arts And Crafts Masterpieces; Author: Dunlop, Beth; Hardback; Book

Author: Dunlop, Beth
Architecture 3s; Hardback; Book; Photographs, Drawings, Chronologies, Lists, Biblio
182 pages
Published: August 1999
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714838764

Three outstanding 'public' buildings from different countries demonstrate how Arts and Crafts architects worked within varying environments. St Andrew's Church, Roker, is a striking creation -- a collaboration of work by architect, artists and craftsmen builders; Glasgow School of Art is a synthesis of opposites -- austere and delicate, dark and light, derivative yet innovative; and theFirst Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, is versatile, colourful and inventive. The authors of these volumes describe how each building responds to its context, while examining its unique character. Studying the buildings in one volume enables the reader to decipher their shared influences along with the larger historical and geographical contexts of each.Features Edward Prior, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Bernard Maybeck. Three public buildings featured here demonstrate how Arts and Crafts architects worked within varying environments: St Andrew's Church, Roker; Glasgow School of Art; and the First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, California. The authors describe how each building responds to its context.