ARTH 2280 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
9 Mar 2017
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John ruskin book: the lamps of architecture - equation of 7 moral qualities essential to good design: Lecture 5: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, obedience. Hated when people took credit for creations when machines made them. In 1870, he wrote a series of letters to the workers of great brittan. Interests of the arts and crafts movement was improving the living conditions of urban industrial working class. Often lived in crowded and polluted city areas. City centre often contained tenements higher density housing for the working class. Higher density tenement housing consisted of common areas on the ground floor and single- room dorms above common for 10-12 people in one room. Terrace houses also known as row or link houses, consist of a row of identical/ mirror image houses. Houses were built to reference the past. He and his company dominated interior design catalog. He imitated stain glass design in hand made wood crafts.
