![]() ![]() These ideals would lead to the design philosophies of many modern architects to become prominent in the twentieth century. In such a way, the Arts and Crafts Movement demanded a return to a basic style, whereby a building is contextualized in its environment and location, and is built with the site in mind. 1 To counter this, Arts and Crafts emphasized handicrafts and the ideals of common laborers, in particular the use of local materials to construct a building, and favored organicism and asymmetry of design, instead of revivalist rationalism and uniformity. To these architects, revivalism did not adequately express the time period and spirit of the age, and they believed that in an era of growing industrialization, art and design were being divorced from regular workers and craftspeople. ![]() Championed by architects William Morris and John Ruskin, the Arts and Crafts style was characterized by a reversion to more primitive and basic forms than were common in neo-gothic and neo-classical styles. ![]() The Arts and Crafts Movement developed in response to the rise of classical and Gothic revivalism in the United Kingdom. This movement highly emphasized primitive, vernacular forms over the revivalism popular at the time, focused on the democratic and spiritual aspects of architecture, and in many ways laid the foundations for the development of modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement was an architectural movement which became prominent at the end of the nineteenth century, and which continued into the beginning of the twentieth century. ![]()
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