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He did most of his work in Southern California, especially in San Diego and Los Angeles. He is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. [1] Twelve of his buildings throughout Southern California are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and many others are designated as historic by local governments.
The American Craftsman style was a 20th century American offshoot of the British Arts and Crafts movement, [1] which began as early as the 1860s. [2]A successor of other 19th century movements, such as the Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement, [2] the British Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against the deteriorating quality of goods during the Industrial Revolution, and the ...
Arts and Crafts movement architecture — or American Craftsman architecture — in California. See also: Category: American Craftsman architecture in California . Pages in category "Arts and Crafts architecture in California"
Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England (UP of New England, 2014). Naylor, Gillian (1971). The Arts and Crafts Movement: a study of its sources, ideals and influence on design theory. London: Studio Vista. ISBN 0-289-79580-X. Parry, Linda (2005). Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Thames and Hudson.
Casa Barranca, more commonly referred to as Charles M. Pratt House, near Ojai, California is a historic Arts and Crafts-style house that was built in 1909 as a winter home for industrialist Charles Millard Pratt. It is one of the "ultimate bungalows" designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene of Greene and Greene.
Shane Building (former Directors Guild of America), Los Angeles, 1930 Skinner House, Los Angeles, 1937; Sontag Drug Store (now Wilshire Beauty), Los Angeles, 1935; Southern California Edison Company Building, Los Angeles; Southern California Gas Company Complex, Downtown Los Angeles, 1925; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, 1911
The Batchelder House is a historic home built in 1910 and located at 626 South Arroyo Boulevard in Pasadena, California.An important center of Pasadena cultural life in its day, the home was designed and built by Ernest A. Batchelder, a prominent leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and his wife, Alice Coleman, an accomplished musician.
In 2000, he donated $2 million to LACMA for Arts and Crafts works. He supplied about a third of the 300 objects displayed in a 2004–05 LACMA exhibit, "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: 1880–1920" and in 2009, the museum presented "The Arts and Crafts Movement: Masterworks From the Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans Collection". [69]