Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture Book

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