ABSTRACT
The school of architecture at Cambridge was founded in 1912 as a result of the efforts of the then Slade Professor of Art, Edward Schroeder Prior, who, in addition to his reputation as a historian of the gothic age, was a major figure in the arts and crafts movement in architecture. 1 Prior’s buildings, such as his houses at Exmouth, 1897, and Holt, 1905, (Figures 9.1 and 9.2), were a particularly idiosyncratic variant upon the arts and crafts theme with their ‘butterfly’ plans. They do, however, exhibit the concern for environmental matters, which was a consistent element of the work of the whole movement. They are particularly careful in the way in which they achieve a southerly orientation for the principal rooms in order to capture the warmth of the winter sun, a kind of ‘proto-passive solar design’. In his church of St Andrew’s at Roker, 1907, 2 Prior demonstrated an interest in another aspect of environmental design in his use of an electrically propelled warm-air heating system (Figure 9.3). Edward Prior, The Barn, Exmouth, 1897. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315024820/877ca205-2c33-478c-b37c-e7e166b04ba5/content/fig9_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Edward Prior, Home Place, Holt, Norfolk, 1905. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315024820/877ca205-2c33-478c-b37c-e7e166b04ba5/content/fig9_2_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Edward Prior, St Andrew's Church Roker, 1907. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315024820/877ca205-2c33-478c-b37c-e7e166b04ba5/content/fig9_3_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
