ARCH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Entablature, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Civilization Ii
6 Oct 2015
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The return to origins from lafitau to laugier : alliance between antiquity and modernism caused, political + social idealism of the enlightenment, supported the anthropology, natural history, and history, informed primitivism of the 18th cent. Lafitau illustrated the method in the frontispiece to his moeurs des savages americains compares aux moeurs des premiers temps. America, among which she is sitting. two genii approach, the one carrying a caduceus of hermes. In depicting time stressed the systematic and static nature of the comparison he wanted to make. Lafitau found no contradiction between the action of time and that of comparison or, as we would say today, between diachrony"(occurring or changing along with time) and. Synchrony"(the state of operating or developing according to the same time scale as something else). The result of lafitau"s study for understanding primitive and developed architecture was its integration as one from among a culture of forms.
