You are browsing the archives of Arts and Crafts Movement.

Charles Harrison Townsend
b. Birkenhead, 1851;
d. Northwood, 1928.
Charles Harrison Townsend - Highly individualistic famous architect of the English Arts & Crafts movement who transcended the movement’s largely domestic aspirations and developed a personal vocabulary more appropriate to the demands of the metropolitan environment. Townsend was articled to a Liverpool architect (1870) but moved south [...]

Philip Webb
b. Oxford, 1831;
d. Worth, Sussex, 1915.1
Philip Webb - As close friend of William Morris, friend and mentor to W. R. Lethaby, the chief technical adviser and instructor to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the designer of a relatively few but hugely influential major houses Webb became the principal instrument through [...]

Lars Israel Wahlman
b. Hedemora, Sweden, 1870;
d. 1952.
Swedish famous architect much influenced by the English Arts & Crafts movement; best- known for his Engelbrekt Church, Stockholm (1906-14). He studied at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where later he was Professor of Building Science (1912-35). He travelled extensively in the Northern and Low countries, though [...]

George Edmund Street
b. Woodford, Essex, 1824;
d. London, 1881.
George Edmund Street,a leading British practitioner and theorist of High Victorian Gothic. After three years in the office of Owen Carter of Winchester, he worked in Scott’s London office 1845-9. He practised in Oxford (1852-6) and subsequently in London. A member of the Ecclesiological Society, he was [...]