TY  - JOUR
TI  - Architecture Taking Shape
Between Nature and Culture:
The Primitive Hut as
a Man-Made Creation
AB  - Architecture’s bounds with nature are
represented as a complex process in a
perverse cycle in the linear history of
architecture and the process is intertwined
with human actions, resulting in the built
environment. Architecture tries to legitimize
itself by incorporating culture to control and
spatialize over nature in the socio-cultural
dimension. This study aims to analyse
architecture as remain in-between nature and
culture by problematizing and questioning
nature/culture dualism in the context of
mimesis. In this way, this research focuses
on the statements on mimesis and concerns
that mimesis is a natural phenomenon and an
artificial invention impacting architecture
related to manners and customs collected
under the cultural context. The mediating
role of culture over nature is traced from the
primitive hut which represents the cultural
re-evaluation of nature in the most primitive
level of architecture and the origins of
architecture. The study traces the precedents
of the primitive hut from the antiquity at
first dwelling house by Vitruvius and other
evolving figures as rustic cabin and
primordial dwelling by the explicit
viewpoints of Marc-Antoine Laugier and
Jean Nicolas Louis Durand in the 18 th
century, and Gottfried Semper in the 19th
century. Then this study finds out the
paradigm shift on the nature-culture doctrine
through rethinking evolving architectural
practice until today by regarding nature as a
sort of object to be manipulated and
exploited as a different ontological reality
under the cultural re-evaluation of the
nature. In a further investigation, it has
resulted that; primitive hut as a typical
model is an output of culture with its
bounded codes in balance with nature as a
result of its evaluation of a critical object
through enlightening the mimesis by the
architectural existence and literary efforts
AU  - TOPÇUOĞLU, Feyza
DO  - 10.14744/tasarimkuram.2022.71463
PY  - 2022
JO  - Tasarım+Kuram
VL  - 18
IS  - 35
SN  - 1302-2636
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/515645
ER  -