Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 - 1852)
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 - 1852)
The Arts and Crafts Movement
The origin of the Arts and Crafts
Movement can be traced to the "True Principles" of August Welby Northmore Pugin
(1812-1852), "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" and other writings and speeches
of John Ruskin (1819-1900) and of course the revolutionary energy and poetic
vision of the larger-than-life William Morris (1834-1896).
(Source: Jack
Warshaw, Voysey and the Arts and Crafts movement, in The Orchard,
no.1, autumn 2012, p.9.)
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A.W.N. Pugin:
"A pointed church is the masterpiece of masonry. It is essentially a stone
building; its pillars, its arches, its vaults, its intricate intersections, its
ramified tracery, are all peculiar to stone, and could not be consistently
executed in any other material. Moreover, the ancient masons obtained great
altitude and great extent with a surprising economy of wall and substance; the
wonderful strength and solidity of their buildings are the result not of the
quantity or size of the stones employed, but of the art of their disposition. To
exhibit the great excellence of these constructions, it will be here necessary
to draw a comparison between them and those of the far-famed classic shores of
Greece.
Grecian architecture is essentially wooden in its construction; it originated in
wooden buildings, and never did its professors possess either sufficient
imagination or skill to conceive any departure from the original type. Vitruvius
shews that their buildings were formerly composed of trunks of trees, with
lintels or brestsummers laid across the top, and rafters again resting on them.
This is at once the most ancient and barbarous mode of building that can be
imagined; it is heavy, and, as I before said, essentially wooden; but is it not
extraordinary that when the Greeks commenced building in stone, the properties
of this material did not suggest to them some different and improved mode of
construction? Such, however, was not the case; they set up stone pillars as they
had set up trunks of wood; they laid stone lintels as they had laid wood ones,
flat across; they even made the construction appear still more similar to wood,
by carving triglyphs, which are merely a representation of the beam ends. The
finest temple of the Greeks is constructed on the same principle as a large
wooden cabin. As illustrations of history they are extremely valuable; but as
for their being held up as the standard of architectural excellence, and the
types from which our present buildings are to be formed, it is a monstrous
absurdity, which has originated in the blind admiration of modern times for
every thing Pagan, to the prejudice and overthrow of Christian art and propriety."
[Source: The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture by A.W.N. Pugin. 1841]
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