Title & Author:

Primitive : original matters in architecture / edited by Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel and Adam Sharr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.
1. Primitive : the word and concept / Adrian Forty -- 2. The primitive as modern problem : invention and crisis / Dalibor Vesely -- 3. Origins redefined : a tale of pigs and primitive huts / Mari Hvattum -- 4. The primitive hut : fantasies of survival in an all-white world / Lorens Holm -- 5. Gottfried Semper's primitive hut : duration, construction and self-creation / Jonathan A. Hale -- 6. Mineral matters : formation and transformation / Richard Weston -- 7. Post-colonizing the primitive / Felipe Hernandez and Lea Knudsen Allen -- 8. Notes for an alternative history of the primitive hut / Stephen Cairns.

Summary:

"This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the myth of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary 1970s conference on the Primitive, with the advent of post-modernism and, in particular, post-colonialism, the word has fallen from favor in many disciplines. Despite this, architects continue to use the word to mythologize and reify the practice of simplicity. Primitive includes contributions from some of today's leading architectural commentators including Dalibor Vesely, Adrian Forty, David Leatherbarrow, Richard Weston and Richard Coyne. Structured around five sections, Negotiating Origins; Urban Myths; Questioning Colonial Constructs; Making Marks; and Primitive Futures, the essays highlight the problematic nature of ideas of the primitive, engage with contemporary debate in the field of post colonialism and respond to a burgeoning interest in the non-expert architecture. This now controversial subject remains, for better or worse, intrinsic to the very structure of Modernism and deeply embedded in architectural theory. Considering a broad range of approaches, this book provides a rounded past, present and future of the word primitive in the architectural sphere."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0415385385 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415385381 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415385393 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415385398 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0203967445
9780203967447

Subject:

Architecture Language.
Architecture Terminology.
Language and culture.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Langage et culture.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architecture Langage.
Architecture Terminologie.

Added entries:

Odgers, Jo.
Samuel, Flora.
Sharr, Adam.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252445
Call No.: BIB 182149
Status: Available