Movement
Arts and Crafts Movement
Explore in the Atlas →A British design-reform movement led by William Morris and the architect Philip Webb, championing handcraft, vernacular building and the integration of art and labour against industrial mass production; its emblem is Webb's Red House (1859).
Production Dwelling
Details
- Origin
- Great Britain
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Apprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced Bauhaus
- influenced Art Nouveau
Referenced by
- Lewis Mumford associated with
Sources
- Gillian Naylor. The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of Its Sources, Ideals and Influence on Design Theory. MIT Press, 1971.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Arts and Crafts Movement." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/arts-and-crafts/. Accessed July 17, 2026.