ARCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oak Park, Illinois, Picturesque, Philip Webb
24 Aug 2016
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London couldn"t handle the expanding population, many middle class families were poor as fuck. William morris, 1834-1896 produced over 600 designs interested in the great scandinavian saga fascinated by the middle ages. Rejected the industrial horror and sought a return to handicraft. Webb sought a true architecture derived from skilled craftsmen, which came to underlie arts and crafts thinking. Although in uenced by the middle ages, no copying of the past. Inspired by ruskin"s idea of a community of creative artists. Munstead wood beg 1896, sir edwin lutyens gardens, gertrude jekyll, godalming, england. Lutyens [the designer of the viceroy"s house in india] Began as an admirer of the domestic revival movement. Webb and was able to fuse the romantic [which included morris and webb] and. Lutyens and jekyll learned how to create a close relationship of house and garden, aside to outside. For about 2 decades they collaborated on house and garden design.
