Table of Contents

Setting the scene - news from nowhere; gathering Grounds - Pugin, Ruskin and the nature of Gothic; the prophet - William Morris and the evolution of Ruskinian theory; lamplighters - Philip Webb and Norman Shaw; foundations - the guilds are forged; the guide - WR Lethaby, theoretician and architect; the explorer - the influence of Edward Prior; a rural tradition - the Arts and Crafts Movement in the country; house and garden- the work and influence of Gertrude Jekyll; urban interventions - the Arts and Crafts movement in the city; the summit - CR Ashbee and the Guild School of Handicraft; the last masters - HM Baillie Scott and Edwin Lutyens; quietly home - Parker and Unwin and the Garden City Movement; the American craftsman - Greene and Greene and the California tradition; the Prairie School - the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright; crossing the Channel - Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau in Europe; Germanic counterpoint: Volkisch architecture and the Modern Movement; postscript: valuing the inheritance.