Primitive Hut

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Table of contents

1 Basic Data

2 Laugier

2.1 Movements 2.2 Influences 2.3 Influencers 2.4 References

3 Semper

3.1 Movements 3.2 Influences 3.3 Influencers 3.4 References

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Basic Data

The Primitive Hut is a piece of architecture conjecture, which theorists use as a way to discuss their theories. Also known as Primitivism. No known record of the definitive primitive hut are known, which leads to the charge that the notion of the "primitive hut" is faulty (if not useful) pure speculation and needless myth making.

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Laugier

The first example of the primitive hut came from Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier, a Jesuit monk from writing in Essai sur l'architecture (1753) as a reaction to ecclecticism in the early 18th cnetury.. Desiring to find the origin of ornament, Laugier conceived the primitive hut in the Vitruvian tradition, which ornate classical elements had evolved. (Curtis 26) Laugier's primitive hut had little basis in archeology or fact, and tangental basis in historical text. Laugier wished to go back to a "more rigorous" understanding of architecture and ornament, which at the heart of the matter meant looking for precedents for classical architecture at the absolute roots of history. Laugier searched for the absolute beauty, which in his primitive hut came from human nature, and were rooted in functional or structural basis. (Curtis 26) This theory was the basis of the so-called Rationalist movement

The elements of Laugier's primitive hut are: