tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17321632881975738662024-03-14T10:47:48.111-04:00primitive hutswe believe dwelling is an arthelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07537243510861908535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1732163288197573866.post-91395994568354149182023-12-05T00:00:00.000-05:002024-01-02T14:24:24.529-05:00the primitive hut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">About The Primitive Hut in the history of art and architecture,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the 1755 edition of the Essai sur l'Architecture, Abbe Marc-Antoine Laugier provides a drawing of the primitive hut. For Laugier, the primitive hut represents the first architectural idea. The hut is an abstract concept. While it is an imaginary "house", it has important meaning to us because it is an </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">emblem of material construction, well-being and the art of dwelling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The symbolic elements of Laugier's hut are simple: trees as columns. The tree-columns are rooted to the ground. They are alive. The foliage, although trimmed, provides a lush roof canopy. Simple, yet modern, it is a frame for living. The dweller fills in the rest. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666; text-align: start;">frontispiece of the second edition of </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Essai sur l'Architecture (1755) by French artist, Charles Eisen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the drawing, Architecture, represented by a woman, leans upon the ruins of the classical orders. She points to the hut. A cherub, the embodiment of all that is ornate and capricious in art and architecture, looks to the hut in confusion, as if to say, <i>"Am I to adorn that...really?" </i>Architecture replies, <i>"no, we are to uphold that: dwelling in nature, with nature and by nature."</i> </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The historian John Summerson wrote, <i>"Marc-Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first modern architectural philosopher." </i>Through Laugier's fable of the hut we have an enlightened nod to future sustainable construction, stylistic multiplicity, dwelling with nature, and individuality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #666666;"><i>“Different destinations give rise to more or less lofty ideas and call for a simple, elegant, noble, august, majestic, extraordinary or prodigious manner....Once the destination is known and the style (gout) chosen, the character of the building is fixed.” </i></span><i>Laugier, </i>Essai sur l'Architecture, 1753</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Houses are living bodies, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">constructed of natural materials. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Over decades, virgin wood petrifies and acts like stone. This is how a tiny house becomes a </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">fortress.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Even when synthetic or man-made materials are components in the overall construction of a house, nature plays upon them anyway. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A house, like any structure must breathe or it will rot away. Not unlike a body with skin, a house is a filter of weather, time, use, history, occupation and nature. We may live in a big city surrounded by the densities of urban life or in a country field surrounded by the densities of local climate. Despite our locations, our homes, urban or rural, dwell </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">in nature, with nature and by nature. The house is a body for living. It is a frame and filter for viewing life. It is simultaneously an inside and an outside. It is a human nature.</span></span></div>
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