News from Nowhere

Architecture in News From Nowhere College

"An expression of culture" [1] is what defines architecture. Recognized as the "first major arts in the arts' classification, architecture is part of the 9 major arts as well as the fine arts" [2]. The history of architecture is more or less interesting because of its complexity and the vision of humanity that has been created and realized around it over the millennia. Architecture has attracted the greed of many writers and scholars who wanted to offer their own vision of art. Architecture has led to the creation of many movements claiming their artistic interests and personal beliefs about art. William Morris, a major British writer of the 19th century in England, played a key role in the emergence of the British socialist current. Famous for his utopian novel News From Nowhere (1890), he seems to want to convey a revolutionary vision of architecture mixing his artistic talents and his personal political convictions while wanting to rehabilitate and popularize Marxist thought. Prior to his career as an author, William Morris was an "architect himself and became one of the British Arts and Crafts movement's pioneers" [3], focusing primarily on the decorative arts, painting and sculpture of the late Victorian era. In this...

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