Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home

Focusing on the Bay Area shingle style and Arts & Crafts collaboration in California since 1865, the authors examine the origins of the trend toward building simple rustic homes in harmony with nature and how a small group of Californians were instrumental in creating this unique architectural movement. Freudenheim examines how Joseph Worcester and his circle encouraged less materialism through architecture that complemented a simpler life in tune with nature, and includes letters from Worcester to his cousin, architect Daniel H. Burnham, along with previously unpublished original documents relating to architectural developments in the Bay Area at the turn of the century.