Red House (London)

The Red House from the Southeast (2010)

The Red House is a residential building in Bexleyheath , London, built by Philip Webb on behalf of William Morris . It is closely related to the ideas of the Arts and Crafts Movement . Morris and Webb rejected the then predominant imitation of Italian Baroque and looked for approaches for architecture in the Middle Ages, especially in the Gothic . However, it was not about the reproduction of Gothic style elements and decors, but about the natural use of materials and the unveiled representation of the spatial arrangement. The building is therefore characterized by a loose structure of the structure instead of trying to follow an obsessive symmetry. Morris and Webb also followed this claim inside the building. Even if the building has some ornaments inside, many places are deliberately left rustic and without decoration.

The renewals in English architecture were only picked up in continental Europe around 1900 and form the starting point for the development from Art Nouveau to Modernism.

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Web links

Commons : Red House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about the Red House on the website of the National Trust (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nikolaus Pevsner : Pioneer of modern design from Morris to Gropius . Dumont, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7701-1414-0 , pp. 49-50, 58 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 49 ″  E