Primitive : Original Matters In Architecture

Editors: Odgers, Flora Samuel and Adam Sharr
Publisher: Routledge, First published 2006

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Contents:
Part 1: Original matters
1 Primitive: the word and concept
Adrian Forty
Part 2: Negotiating origins
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
Part 3: Questioning colonial constructs
7 Post-colonizing the primitive
Felipe Hernلndez and Lea Knudsen Allen
8 Notes for an alternative history of the primitive hut
Stephen Cairns
9 Reinventing ‘primitiveness’: Henri Lacoste and the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris
Johan Lagae
10 The radicalization of the primitive in Brazilian modernism
Styliane Philippou
11 The need to be critical
Robert Brown
Part 4: Urban myths
12 Practically primitive
David Leatherbarrow
13 Giants and columns
Nicholas Temple
14 The emblematic city: John Wood and the re-founding of Bath
Jo Odgers
15 Alvar Aalto and the primitive suburb
Harry Charrington
16 Metaphorical Manhattan – ‘Paradise Lost’
Lorna McNeur
Part 5: Making marks
17 The perception of self-negation in the space of emptiness: the primitive in Tadao Ando’s architecture
Jin Baek
18 The ‘primitive surface’: carving, modelling, marking and transformation
Stephen Kite
19 The modern-day primitive hut? ‘Self-building’ with Jung, Aalto and Le Corbusier
Flora Samuel and Sarah Menin
20 The wisdom of the sands
Simon Unwin
Part 6: Primitive futures?
21 Digital commerce and the primitive roots of architectural consumption
Richard Coyne
22 Primitive and the everyday: Sergison Bates, Lefebvre and the guilt of architectural expertise
Adam Sharr
23 Heart of Darkness: air of comfort
Helen Mallinson
24 Primitive: from which construction begins
Peter Salter
25 The United Cultures of Britain
CJ Lim