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If you have read the recent story about the tribe in Brazil that was recently in the news (e.g. Uncontacted Amazonian tribe photographed) you'll notice the shape of the structures they have – highly-pitched, gabled ends. It may be possible that there has been contact between this tribe and other tribes throughout history, but assuming there was not substantive contact, where do you think this idea for a pitched structure came from? Was it innate? Why not build a flat-topped roof which might be just as easy? If it was innate, what does that tell us about our modern architecture which still uses such a form?In the mid-18th century the Frenchman Laugier presented an "idealized" version of the forms primitive man used, including that of the gabled roof. He was doing this in order to bring French architecture back to its basics, away from some of the superfluous features being added in his day. Although Laugier wasn't giving an historical account of how architecture actually developed, I wonder if what he brought up rings true - that the gabled structure is immediately evident even to primitive design.
True, and I think that innately functional approach is common (evident) to people of varying civilizations.
form follows function even in prehistory.
...although one of my professors stressed the point that up until about the 18th century, people did not make the division between form and function in architecture as we do nowadays. I tried to get him to clarify these remarks but still cannot clearly understand what he meant...
They weren't worried about explaining why they did it… other than it worked.We moderns spend too much time thinking about things and not enough time doing things perhaps. 😉
Well, looks like the tribe wasn't so “lost” after all…Secret of the 'lost' tribe that wasn't
Tribal guardian admits the Amazon Indians' existence was already known, but he hoped the publicity would lift the threat of logging
