Meister, Maureen.

Arts & crafts architecture : history and heritage in New England / Maureen Meister. - xvi, 288 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: grappling with modernity -- Dramatis personae: twelve architect-leaders -- Arts and crafts advocates, arts and crafts architects -- An intellectual stew: Emerson, Norton, Brandeis -- An arts and crafts movement emerges in New England -- Looking backward: from Romanesque to Gothic revival -- Looking backward: Colonial revival as arts and crafts -- Looking forward: building for the twentieth century -- Epilogue: confronting modernism.

9781611686623 (cloth : alk. paper)

2014013798


Architecture--History--New England--19th century.
Architecture--History--New England--20th century.
Arts and crafts movement--New England.

NA715 / .M45 2014

720.974/09034