Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Cline offers sensitive new insights into the meaning of the 'primitive hut.' Drawing on a variety of cultural, historical, and architectural references from past and present, her study is a profoundly original scholarly and philosophical meditation on the importance of the hut in contemporary society as filtered through her own experience as builder and user.
David B. Stewart
One never knows if a text will achieve a 'vogue' success, but this one surely deserves classic status.
Frederick Turner
Ann Cline's book opens architecture once more to the disheveled and unruly imagination of dreams, that combines the ancient and the immediate, the uncanny and the homely.
Norman Crowe
Ann Cline offers us a thought-provoking argument: She demonstrates how the deceptively simple act of designing and building a habitable hut can reawaken sensibilities intrinsic to profound architectural experience. Using examples that cut across cultures and time, we see how the humble primitive hut leads to a renewed awareness of architecture's potential for heightening existential and transcendent meaning, serving ultimately as a critique on the superficial arguments that are used characteristically to justify so much of the celebrated architecture of our time.
Endorsement
One never knows if a text will achieve a 'vogue' success, but this one surely deserves classic status.
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David B. Stewart, Professor of Architectural History, Tokyo Institute of Technology
From the Publisher
Ann Cline's book opens architecture once more to the disheveled and unruly imagination of dreams, that combines the ancient and the immediate, the uncanny and the homely.
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Frederick Turner, Founders Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas
Cline offers sensitive new insights into the meaning of the 'primitive hut.' Drawing on a variety of cultural, historical, and architectural references from past and present, her study is a profoundly original scholarly and philosophical meditation on the importance of the hut in contemporary society as filtered through her own experience as builder and user.
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Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ann Cline offers us a thought-provoking argument: She demonstrates how the deceptively simple act of designing and building a habitable hut can reawaken sensibilities intrinsic to profound architectural experience. Using examples that cut across cultures and time, we see how the humble primitive hut leads to a renewed awareness of architecture's potential for heightening existential and transcendent meaning, serving ultimately as a critique on the superficial arguments that are used characteristically to justify so much of the celebrated architecture of our time.
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Norman Crowe, Architect and Professor, University of Notre Dame
One never knows if a text will achieve a 'vogue' success, but this one surely deserves classic status.
—
David B. Stewart, Professor of Architectural History, Tokyo Institute of Technology
