Building & Brews: Arts and Crafts Era

Building & Brews: Arts and Crafts Era
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[@ClarkyClark]

You nailed it here. Yes, we're looking for simplicity. I recently bought a 1907 craftsman home in Seattle area. Little by little I'm restoring it's original trim. Some still exist so I'm copying that. Furniture and other things are being brought in to match the eyes and style. There is great beauty in simplicity and the natural wood.

[@BrentHull]

Amen! Thanks for sharing.

[@DJ-yc5qk]

I just want to thank you Brent, I have a small portfolio of historic properties in Roswell, Georgia, but have not been able to know enough about historic preservation to direct my general contractors when rehabbing or repairing. I am hooked on all of your content and want to thank you for sharing it with the world, as you are talking about historicfigures, you are leaving your mark by making sure all of this content stays alive

[@BrentHull]

Thank you so much. Very kind.

[@slickmcCool]

Thanks again! I agree with your theory. McMansions are the housing equivalent of a souless wasteland

[@BrentHull]

Welcome!

[@theresalero7039]

Brent I just love your enthusiasm and willingness to share your knowledge. I am slowly updating my country home to A & C style. You are really helping me, thank you.

[@BrentHull]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

Excellent presentation!!! Brent, I simply love the work you do and what you are "TRYING" to get across to the architectural community at large... I'm an extremist, in as much, I don't (won't!) use industrialized materials in my work as a design-builder for 90% or more of any architecture project I am part of by volume and/or mass. Timber/wood (always sustainable and usually "green" by modern standards), stone, earth, and textile make up these projects. Simply put, the oldest buildings in the world (some over 2000 years old) are still the best designed and built still today... I have never used modern concretes, steel, or plastics in virtually all work except in very limited and "client-driven" specific areas, and what you outlined in this presentation speaks to many of the reasons why I find more and more people moving toward both "sustainable natural building" and "vernacular historical folk styles" in architecture, since buildings (by there nature of means, method, and material choice) 100 years ago were "natural," as well as better built... Thanks for what you are doing and keeping alive! Keep those videos coming... Blessings, j

[@BrentHull]

Awesome! Thanks so much. It appears we are like minded. Building so things will last hundreds of years requires using natural materials. Keep up the good work.

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

@@BrentHull You are most welcome Brent and deserving of high praise for your efforts... So often in planning meetings a General Contractor or Architect challenge my perspectives of "time" and "methods" with little to back up their aspersion other than poorly formed opinions without any merit or backbone... Bottom line, what you and I design and build (if taken care of even moderately) will be here 1000 years from now...That is sustainable at its best and if done traditionally (???) it will always be natural!!! Looking forward to more of your videos!

[@grannyinthesticks]

so glad I found this channel. great videos. My husband and I just sat here and watched this one at the table, pausing to discuss many things. Thank you!

[@BrentHull]

Aw, so glad to hear it. Thx.

[@Hawking1969]

amazing! this broke city dweller loves these presentations!

[@BrentHull]

Great to hear! Thanks!

[@debraschug5789]

We really enjoyed this! My husband and I just bought a 1907 Prairie Style house in Racine, WI (down the block from the Wright designed SC Johnson's office) and a lot of what you said and showed resonated with the design of this home! Starting a personal Substack to document our research and experience in it!

[@BrentHull]

That is awesome! Keep me posted.

[@grannyinthesticks]

Hey! did you start the substack? was wanting to check it out. don't know what name to look for because just Debra Schug doesn't work. I'm building a log home in an arts and crafts style, and probably need to go with some prairie style

[@JR-gh8lp]

Chicago Bungalows! This is my goal - buy a Chicago bungalow and add back any reproductions or buy from home salvage yards to recreate a close enough design of 1920’s art deco

[@BrentHull]

Sounds Awesome. thanks.

[@donlourie769]

Fascinating story. Somehhere in this narrative is the Shaker movement. It seems to incorporate the simple and practical and is fairly easy to build.

[@BrentHull]

Agreed. Thx.

[@MsBridgesSocial]

I want to thank you for putting these videos out. As an architectural designer, I find that the field of architecture has lost its place of significance to the public because of modern architecture. I'm almost tempted to abandon my aspirations of being a licensed architect and solely working on becoming a great architectural designer of homes. In the grand scheme of things it may not seem very aspirational, but maybe it's necessary. Today, there is a push towards discarding family artifacts and heirlooms. People talk about living simpler lives by moving to tiny houses and selling all of their "old" stuff. What's happening is that the family unit has been harmed by this way of thinking because people do not value where they come from. Extended family are discarded as irrelevant. Adult children are told to disown their parents for minor offenses. It has turned neighbors into strangers. How many of you do not know any of yours? I've lived in this house for almost 20 years. I don't know my neighbors as friends. The ones I do know are a royal pain in the...you can finish it. I watched a series of lectures on architectural history a while back where I learned the story of architecture in America. From the church being the center of town, to the courthouse being the center to not having any center at all. You can follow the rejection of biblical values from the east to the embrace of humanism in the west through architecture and it's cities. In studying gothic architecture, a story of a man from the East became famous. After touring the great cathedrals and picking his jaw up off the floor he said, "These people are going to walk on the moon." Architecture influences our beliefs in all aspects of our lives. And yet the field of architecture meets the disdain of builders and the disrespect of clients. How do I help change that? My hope in the years to come is to be an invaluable member of the construction team and discover a design philosophy that will recapture the disciplines of art in a structure that people live and touch and experience every day. I highly encourage everyone to look at the art revival going on that is recapturing classical art discipline by ARC. This essay by the founder of the Art Renewal Center sums up everything I believe needs to be done to repair the damage done by modernism. www.artrenewal.org/articles/what-is-fine-art-and-why-realism/143 So can we finally agree that Jackson Pollock was NOT an artist?!

[@BrentHull]

Thanks for commenting. I would not pursue the degree or license. I would work on being a great designer. Good luck!!

[@nascarhyde]

Hi Brent, I really enjoyed the video presentation about the Arts and Crafts Era. I really enjoy your channel! Keep up the great work!

[@BrentHull]

Thanks, will do!

[@vazz22]

Keep these videos coming!!!

[@BrentHull]

Will do!!

[@cb4920]

I’m an old school builder. 60 years into it. Nuff said. Your ok by me. I love the history of my craft. Thanks. Lose the vest ha ha.

[@BrentHull]

Nice, Thanks for sharing. Glad you like the vest. LOL

[@cb4920]

@@BrentHull Cool beans

[@PaulCapello]

31:11 😂 laugh it up, cupcake. Now go fetch my slippers and make me a sammich.

[@BrentHull]

Haha. I know right.

[@remy241]

Wow Brent, thanks for an incredible presentation, really can’t find anything like this here in Canada. Love the spirit of entrepreneurship that you Americans bring, it’s very refreshing.

[@BrentHull]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@olascrafts]

Oh great. Now I have to design my own chair 😅

[@BrentHull]

Haha, I know, but its worth it.

[@jacobtracy7847]

Love it!!! Still I would like to see/ know what that transition between arts and crafts and Art Deco, where different parts of the country were. My house is a 1925 Craftsman and pretty modest even by the standards of the day. But it overlaps that period of the beginning of Art Deco in Paris and New York but we were a little "behind" here in Kansas.

[@BrentHull]

Art Deco and modern talk coming in May. Sign up now. Thanks.

[@Fulcrum205]

Arts and Crafts kept going in middle and lower class residential up until the Ranch minimal boom killed it after WW2. Art Deco was for commercial buildings and rich people houses. I've seen Craftsman homes built in the 1940s (albeit with less fancy detailing due to wartime material shortages). I'm a Southerner, so things were weirder down here. There were plenty of people building antebellum style Victorian or Colonial style houses through all of the big 20th century design movements. I grew up in the Eastlake area of Birmingham. In my neighborhood there were brick Federals, Tudors, Cape Cods, and Craftsman cottages all on the same streets in my neighborhood. All were built in the teens and twenties.

[@emgmin]

Ah this made my night!

[@BrentHull]

Nice!!

[@regulatorct]

love it

[@BrentHull]

Thanks for watching.

[@BitsOfInterest]

One of few KZbin videos my wife is also interested in 😉👍 We live in a 1919 Sears kit house in North Texas and want to build a Net Zero Craftsman in the next couple of years. Single pane glass, no insulation and cracks and holes to the outside everywhere are the less charming parts of our current house. My dream building team would be you and Matt Reisinger, but I'm afraid you guys are outside of our budget, LOL 😜

[@BrentHull]

I can't afford me either. Thanks and would love to help.

[@BitsOfInterest]

@@BrentHull Thanks! We'll do our homework first and read some of those books you recommend, my wife has already ordered some. Before we start spending real money, do you think a Craftsman would look out of place on a 5-10 acre lot in the country? I ask because you typically see them on small city lots.

[@Fulcrum205]

@BitsOfInterest I've seen Craftsman homes (probably kit houses) in rural areas in the South. For people living way out in the country a kit house was the only way to get a nice house if there wasn't a skilled builder near you.

[@alienproductions9948]

Chair is by Hans Wegner. Thank you!!

[@BrentHull]

Nice! THanks.

[@bighands69]

Fantastic video on the Arts and craft movement movement. The Arts and Craft movement was a period of cultural development. Rather than it being a full rejection of the industrial age it was a natural response to lack of individualism that industrial output created. It was a boom period of small craft businesses, art and general creativity. The irony is that it ended up with Arts and Craft merging with industrial processes to create better products. The Arts and Craft culture was not strictly against the use of machines as long as the machine involved a craftsman. Hopefully we can move back to more things being made by small businesses for the local community.

[@BrentHull]

Amen. Wouldn't that be great!

[@patriciau6277]

The arts and crafts also gave the common craftsmen/artist an affordable blank slate (some what) ! These common uneducated people could express themselves in their home to the point they could perfect it. Much like makers today.

[@BrentHull]

Ok.

[@robinbirdj743]

There’s a house for sale now in Eugene OR that my late husband designed. His previous ex finished it so it’s not quite what he envisioned. Greene & Greene were my sweetie’s favorite ❤. Check it out!

[@BrentHull]

Ok. thanks so much.

[@grahamhayden8969]

I found a house at 10196 Wooster Pike, Creston, OH 44217 which is a great example of a Greek Revival home remodeled into a crafts home. Look at the side view of the house and you can see that it was a Greek revival.

[@BrentHull]

Very interesting! You may be right. Thanks for sharing.

[@richd8537]

Thank you for this information. I just read a reprint of a book by Stickley and I am very interested in A & C bungalows.

[@richd8537]

My wife and I are big Sarah Susanka fans too.

[@BrentHull]

Wonderful!

[@bdidier37]

Hey Brent, is the Art Deco period next?

[@BrentHull]

Period Revival and then Art Deco and modernism in May.

[@ryananthony4840]

I always thought the Erie Railroad depots had a kind of Japanese style roof

[@BrentHull]

Well there you go.

[@pcatful]

How did the Shaker style, the American folk style affect the A&C movement?

[@BrentHull]

Shaker not much at all, Amer. Folk maybe 2%. Interesting that those have a lot of the same ideals and philosophies so I understand the question. I find those ideals are cyclical but not necessarily influential on each other. Thanks.

[@cw4091]

Brent, why don't you come out with a set of NEW BUILD designs for middle class? A la Marianne Cusato? Particularly a set that would work for DFW?

[@BrentHull]

Hmm, good idea. I'll add it to the list.

[@kamurancakiir]

is that was Frank Lloyd Wright`s Martin House in New York?

[@BrentHull]

Yes! Thanks.

[@saltyroe3179]

In the long history of building, rhe bad buildings Don't survive. What survives is the few that were built well, usually for the rich. The were plenty of junk buildings in the 1st half of the 20th century. My 1929 Monterey Colonial was built to high standards and devoid of decoration.

[@BrentHull]

THanks.

[@pcatful]

Funny how the things that are OK in Texas now were the rage in California ca 1970...

[@BrentHull]

Yes. Interesting.

[@WakandaBabe]

Interesting presentation. I disagree that Victorian homes are ugly though. I think the decoration was claustrophobic and cluttered but the woodwork, etc was gorgeous. I also think Victorian furniture, while fussy, was more comfortable than, say, a Morris chair (I would need to put a pillow against the back!). But I do agree that modern designs have no soul. The McMansions are butt ugly (no disrespect to butts!), they are thrown up quickly and cheaply. I own a 1927 Craftsman and you couldn't give me a new house!

[@BrentHull]

I didn't mean to say Victorians are ugly. I was more contrasting 2 periods. Thanks for watching. I agree on new housing. Thanks.

[@longingheart6620]

I love the Victorian era and find your attitude very rude. Our current house was built in 1923 after the original home burned to the ground like most of the town it was rebuilt with the dormers and a number of renovations. It has a touch of Victorian which gives it class. The clunker of a chair is not attractive.

[@BrentHull]

Noted. thx

[@Mel-tw6qv]

I love Victorians too, but there were a whole bunch of people back then that thought they were ugly. Probably similar to how we think 80’s ranch homes are ugly and cheaply built.

[@artwerksDallas]

I wrote my dissertation on the political ideology of building styles and architecture in society. And how each building trend introduced a political approach to the political climate. So this was very interesting. I wish I could seen it 15 years ago

[@BrentHull]

Very interesting. Thx for sharing.