Primitive hut

The primitive hut is an architectural concept that goes back to Vitruvius and especially in the 18th century unfolded its effect in architectural theory.

Under Tugurium was in ancient Roman times, first in a simple hut understood in wood and clay construction with a roof of reeds, tree bark or sod. As a humble dwelling or shelter, it appears in the sources, or as typical of primitive peoples, such as the Dacians and Sarmatians, whose round huts are represented on the Trajan and Marcus column.

Vitruvius describes the commonly used at various barbarian peoples designs, but then strikes the arc and links these huts with the beginnings of the art, architecture, and not least of Roman history by pointing out that the Casa Romuli, a simple thatched hut on the Palatine that Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome was attributed to a construction exactly this kind was.

The methodology described by Vitruvius simple hut became the idealized principle of natural house in the architectural theory of the 18th century, far-reaching as the primitive hut effect, particularly in Marc- Antoine Laugier, in which she depicted on the frontispiece of the second edition of his 1755 published Essai sur l'Architecture, and in the succession as in François Blondel and Nicolaus von Thaden to Oswald Mathias Ungers.