After the Arts and Crafts movement coalesced in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, it quickly made its way to the United States. Architects and artisans embraced its values, advocating for handicraft in building design while promoting a respect for nature, simplicity, native materials, and regional culture. This program, based on the newly published book of the same name by Maureen Meister, presents buildings that reflect Arts and Crafts ideals in distinctive ways and connects them to the movement’s major themes.
Meister’s presentation will explore buildings from Boston to San Diego, highlighting iconic examples by Ralph Adams Cram, Irving J. Gill, Greene and Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The program also brings to the fore many lesser-known figures, including women architects such as Marion Mahony and Cora Cadwallader Tuttle and Black architects such as William A. Hazel and Paul R. Williams.
Maureen Meister, PhD, has published extensively on topics related to the Arts and Crafts movement and American architects associated with it. She has taught at Boston area universities including Tufts, Lesley, and Northeastern. She is the editor of H. H. Richardson: The Architect, His Peers, and Their Era (1999), and the author of Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England (2014), among others.
This program will be recorded and a link will be sent to all registrants. The link will remain live for seven days following the program.
$16 per person / $13 for members
All ticket sales final, no refunds or exchanges.
Image (left to right):
Craftsman Farms (Gustav Stickley, architect)
Adolph Mueller House (Marion Mahony, architect)
El Alisal (Charles Fletcher Lummis, architect)