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Modernist architecture.
The movement "Arts and Crafts". On 1861 William Morris it founds London, with a
group of artists and architects, the society "Morris and Co." destined to the
construction and manufacture of artistic objects and current use but. This
society was the departure point of an ambitious movement of intention but that
later culminated 27 years with the construction, by C.R. Ashbee, of the "Arts
and Society" (Society of Arts and Offices). Between both dates they took place
manifold attempts, initiatives and discussions, that gave rise to other several
organizations oriented to the improvement and renovation of crafts works, in
opposition to the use and superiority of the machines. Morris very indefatigably
fought by the perfection and originality of crafts works and indirectly by the
architecture. As model took the crafts from the average age.
Its fight went directed against the decay that supposed the
industrial production, of less value than the manual, and against the objects
made in series by the machines that because of their lower price conquered the
world, replacing the beauty and the truth by the falsification and the deceit.
But the production was not a cause that could be not known in 1888, year on
which it is based the Society of Arts and Offices. Of this form Ashbee
understood to it and accepted; at least, the theory of the work in common. With
her it introduced the method of the industrial design, that from the
construction of the Crystal palace corresponds to the era of the mechanism. In
spite of these variants, aesthetically the movement stayed bound to the origin
ideas, mainly, through the work of Walter Seeds, first president of "Arts and
Crafts" that once in a while expressed its opposition to the new tendencies.
From the spirit who contributes "Society of Arts and Offices" derives a new type
of architecture, the modernism, supported in its decorative sense of the
construction, that breaks the aesthetic one of century XIX, changing totally the
own art of the same one. |
