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With some exceptions, the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1890s and early twentieth century is understood to be in direct line of succession to Morris and the revivalist Guilds of the 1880s. While this is obviously true, what has been lost from view is the legacy of Symbolism, deriving from the Pre-Raphaelites, which clung to the movement and was augmented by later European developments. Papers in this session open up new avenues for understanding Arts and Crafts architecture by examining ideas to do with spirituality, belief and eclecticism.

Architecture, Mysticism and Myth William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Harriet Edquist, (Arts & Crafts Introductory Essay)

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Robert Riddel
St Brigid's Church Red Hill, Brisbane: the origins of its architectural style

Yves Schoonjans
An Enlightened Freedom: the architectural magazines Revue Générale and L’Emulation as a scientific framework for an eclectic designer-practice

William Taylor
A Great and Noble Labour: the architecture and asceticism of John Hawes, 1915-1938

Sarah Treadwell
The Architecture of James Chapman-Taylor: colonial inflections of the golden dawn

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