Designing With Nature: Arts & Crafts Architecture in Northern California
2009•NR•1h 26m•Released
Documentary
Designing with Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the documentary examines the work of several major architects who were influenced by Arts and Crafts ideals, as well as by the reformist ethos of the Progressive Era. These designers sought to create an architecture suited to the landscape, climate, and emerging culture of the region. Rejecting Victorian excess and the artificial separation of art and craft, they strove to create an organic architecture based on unified design and harmony with nature.
Director
Paul Bockhorst
Writer
Paul Bockhorst
Studio
Paul Bockhorst Productions
Cast
Richard Doyle
Narrator
Robert Judson Clark
Commentary
Richard Longstreth
Commentary
Kenneth Cardwell
Commentary
Richard Guy Wilson
Commentary
Leslie Freudenheim
Commentary
Susan Cerny
Commentary
James Lawrence
Commentary
John Gaul
Commentary
Carol Ann Rogers
Commentary
Polly Moore
Commentary
Marilyn Thomas
Commentary
Production
Company
Paul Bockhorst Productions
Producer
Paul Bockhorst
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