Flora Samuel is an architect and senior lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

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Original Matters in Architecture . The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary 1970s conference on the Primitive, with the advent of post-modernism and, in particular, post-colonialism, the word has fallen from favour in many disciplines. Considering a broad range of approaches, this book provides a rounded past, present and future of the word primitive in the architectural sphere. Part 1: Original matters.

Jo Odgers conference from which this book has evolved. is a lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture and principal of.

is an architect and lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and previously worked in architectural practice for fifteen. She is currently writing her P. on the work of John Wood of Bath in. relation to the tradition of occult philosophy. Her next project (with Flora. Samuel) is a book entitled. conference from which this book has evolved. Adam Sharr Architects, both based in Cardiff. Previously, he was Lecturer in. Architecture at the University of Nottingham and worked in architectural prac.

Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel, Adam Sharr. 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.

The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the .

The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Despite this, architects continue to use the word to mythologize and reify the practice of simplicity.

London : Routledge, 2006. Odgers, J, Samuel, F & Sharr, A (eds) 2006, Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture.

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering. London : Routledge, 2006. Odgers J, (e., Samuel F, (e., Sharr A, (e. London: Routledge, 2006.

Adam Sharr is a writer and educator with an expertise in architecture

Heidegger's Hut, photographs by Digne Meller-Marcovicz, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2006. Heidegger for Architects, Routledge (New York, NY), 2007. SIDELIGHTS: Adam Sharr is a writer and educator with an expertise in architecture. Kingwell also noted that Sharr's "book also offers nicely turned though all too brief contributions on the importance of place in architectural thought by Simon Sadler and Andrew Benjamin, two leading theoreticians of the built environment," providing a broader picture of this relationship between place and the mental process.

Flora Samuel and Inge Linder Gaillard, Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2012). Shortlisted for the Art and Christianity Enquiry Mercer's Book Prize 2014 Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel and Adam Sharr (ed., Primitive (London: Routledge, 2006). Flora Samuel, Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist (London: Wiley, 2004). Concerned by the seeming inability of the Architecture profession in Britain to convey to the public its value my work focuses on Architects, their skills and how they communicate them to the outside world.