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José Gigante, House Converted from a Historic Grain-Drying Hut, Guimarães, Portugal, 2005 (via alves)
Far from being frivolous exercises as the name implies, follies have always been fragments that do not depend upon decoration, but follow the principles of good building and allow the imagination to elaborate on the simplest forms - the column, the hut, the grotto.
B.J. Archer, Follies: Architecture for the Late-Twentieth-Century Landscape, 1983
Alice Aycock, Low Building With Dirt Roof (For Mary), 1973
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Archivision Hirotani Studio, Mukou Leimondo Nursery School, Kyoto, Japan, c. 2014 (via remash)
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Levi Mandel, Roof Shelter, c. 2014 (via field)
This was the order of human institutions: first the forests, after that the huts, then the villages, next the cities, and finally the academies.
Giambattista Vico, New Science, 1725 (via harrison)
Nick Ritar + Kirsten Bradley, Section of the EarthBag, Milkwood Farms, Australia, c. 2011