A drawing by the French architect and theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc depicts “The First Building”. It is the archetypal romantic image of a house in a primitive paradise. Slender saplings still growing from the ground are seen tied together to create a framework, while Rousseau-esque noble savages begin to clad the structure in what looks like wattle and daub. This is a picture of the house as an organic extension of the landscape, literally growing from the ground, and it… (View original article)
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