Primitive Book

Part I: Original Matters 1. Primitive: The Word and Concept Adrian Forty Part II: 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. Semper's Primitive Hut: Dureation, Construction and Self-Creation Jonathan Hale 6. Mineral Matters: Formation and Transformation Richard Weston Part III: Questioning Colonial Constructs 7. Post-Colonizing the Primitive Felipe Hernandez and Lea Knudson 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 Colonial Exposition in Paris Johan Lagae 10. The Radicalisation of the Primitive in Brazilian Modernism Styliane Phillipou 11. The Need to be Critical Robert Brown Part IV: Urban Myths 12. Practically Primitive David Leatherbarrow 13. Giants and Columns Nick Temple 14. The Emblematic City: John Wood and the Refounding of Bath Jo Odgers 15. Alvar Aalto and the Primitive Suburb Harry Charrington 16. Metaphorical Manhattan: Paradise Lost Lorna McNeur Part V: Making Marks 17. The Perception of Self-Navigation 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 VI: Primitive Futures? 21. Digital Commerce and the Primitive Roots of Architectural Consumption Richard Coyne 22. The 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. United Cultures of Britain C.J. Lim