Primitive Architecture
Sources & Creatorship – Third Lesson
At the end of the last lesson we went to the library at our school to pick some books that might be interesting for our research. I picked 2 books: Primitive Architecture and Baksteen (Brick).
For this lesson I read Primitive Architecture.
Primitive Architecture
RESEARCH
The first book I looked into and gathered infromation from, was Primitive Architecture, Enrico Guidoni 1987.
“A photographic and descriptive investigation of the structure, purpose, and interpretation of the buildings and landscape alterations of primitive societies.”
I choose this book, because it is the exact opposite of what I saw during my walk in my city.
These are some of the pictures that I found interesting.
12 Rebuilding a conical roof (Guinea). Page 15 
24 Gurunsi: granary for sorghum and millet (Upper Volta). Page 21 
28 Diula: granary for sorghum, Banono (Ivory Coast). Page 22 
37 Naga-Angami: house with a large horn motif (Assam). Page 29 
38 Naga-Angami: houses with and without the horn motif (Assam). Page 29 
50 Tshokive : village with decorated houses; the men’s house (tshota) at the right. Annex to the Museo do Dundo, Luanda (Angola). Page 37 
88 – 90 Yanoama: interior views of chapunos made up of independent leantos, Amazonas (western Brazil). Page 57 
102 Blackfoot (?) : teppe (Western Canada). Photograph of 1905. Page 66 
122 Turkmen : a yurta; at the left, the cord for opening and closing the vent at the top (northern Afghanistan). Page 77 
225 Men’s house with saddleback roof with double cusps, Middle Sepik River region (New Guinea). Page 150-151 
231 Reconstruction of a spirits’ house, Sepik River region (New Guinea). Museo Etnologico, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City. Page 155
REFLECTION
‘What do you see?’:
What I mostly noticed about this collection, was that most of the pictures was architecture and a lot of them were houses. ALso, compared to my walk, the mediums were different, including alot of wood and rope and clay/stone, more natural materials. All the pictures are in black and white. In the book was a lot of repeating and buildings that looked really similar to eachother.
my reflection
I did find the book interesting, because of how different it is to what I saw during my walk (mediums etc). However, the more I looked into the book, the more it lost my interest. Could be that all the pictures are in black and white, could also be that there was so much repeat in buildings or only small changes.
feedback
TEACHER
This lesson I didn’t get feedback from my teacher.
conclusion
Because this book turned out to not be so interesting to me, I will be reading my second book, Baksteen (Brick), for the next lesson.