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Interior columns like massive stone trees in the Sagrada Familia basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, branching limbs and all. It makes me wonder about the history of natural motifs in architecture and art, a topic which no doubt has many different local expressions but would still make for a fascinating story. Does anyone know of any books that chart the cultural history of such natural emblems and borrowings?
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Perhaps a place to start might be Laugier’s Primitive Hut…
“Branches form an incline that can be covered with leaves and moss, “so that neither the sun nor the rain can penetrate therein; and now the man is lodged.”
Laugier concludes that “The little rustic cabin that I have just described, is the model upon which all the magnificences of architecture have been imagined.”
https://www.thoughtco.com/primitive-hut-essentials-of-architecture-178084
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Fascinating, will take a look thank you!
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