Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture

by Odgers; Jo

• ISBN13: 9780415385398
• ISBN10: 0415385393
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This innovative, illustrated edited edition brings together a collection of authors to chart the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.

Table of Contents

Illustration credits	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction	xvii
Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel and Adam Sharr
Part 1: Original matters	1	(14)
1 Primitive: the word and concept	3	(14)
Adrian Forty
Part 2: Negotiating origins	15	(56)
2 The primitive as modern problem: invention and crisis	17	(16)
Dalibor Vesely
3 Origins redefined: a tale of pigs and primitive huts	33	(10)
Mari Hvattum
4 The primitive hut: fantasies of survival in an all-white world	43	(12)
Lorens Holm
5 Gottfried Semper's primitive hut: duration, construction and self-creation	55	(8)
Jonathan A. Hale
6 Mineral matters: formation and transformation	63	(10)
Richard Weston
Part 3: Questioning colonial constructs	71	(54)
7 Post-colonizing the primitive	73	(13)
Felipe Hernandez and Lea Knudsen Allen
8 Notes for an alternative history of the primitive hut	86	(10)
Stephen Cairns
9 Reinventing 'primitiveness': Henri Lacoste and the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris	96	(12)
Johan Lagae
10 The radicalization of the primitive in Brazilian modernism	108	(13)
Styliane Philippou
11 The need to be critical	121	(4)
Robert Brown
Part 4: Urban myths	125	(56)
12 Practically primitive	127	(12)
David Leatherbarrow
13 Giants and columns	139	(11)
Nicholas Temple
14 The emblematic city: John Wood and the re-founding of Bath	150	(16)
Jo Odgers
15 Alvar Aalto and the primitive suburb	166	(10)
Harry Charrington
16 Metaphorical Manhattan - 'Paradise Lost'	176	(5)
Lorna McNeur
Part 5: Making marks	181	(46)
17 The perception of self-negation in the space of emptiness: the primitive in Tadao Ando's architecture	183	(11)
Jin Baek
18 The 'primitive surface': carving, modelling, marking and transformation	194	(13)
Stephen Kite
19 The modern-day primitive hut? "Self-building' with Jung, Aalto and Le Corbusier	207	(14)
Flora Samuel and Sarah Menin
20 The wisdom of the sands	221	(6)
Simon Unwin
Part 6: Primitive futures?	227	(46)
21 Digital commerce and the primitive roots of architectural consumption	229	(11)
Richard Coyne
22 Primitive and the everyday: Sergison Bates, Lefebvre and the guilt of architectural expertise	240	(11)
Adam Sharr
23 Heart of Darkness: air of comfort	251	(9)
Helen Mallinson
24 Primitive: from which construction begins	260	(7)
Peter Salter
25 The United Cultures of Britain	267	(6)
CJ Lim
Select bibliography	273	(6)
Index	279