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Paradoxically, Laugier's ideas about the origins of architecture spurred two quite different streams of thought. Because he called attention to the practical needs architecture must meet, the first, normative, stream focused on function, giving birth to protofunctionalism, modernism, and, in reaction to those, to postmodernism. But because he also implied a historical continuity from the "primitive hut" to the buildings of his time, a second, descriptive, stream developed a conceptual framework focused on history, that is, on the interactions between architecture and society. This second stream is discussed here. The man who started it all was Antoine Chrisostome Quatremere de Quincy, a French intellectual of Neoplatonic philosophical orientation, who lived through one of the most convulsive periods of European history: before, during, and after the French Revolution of 1789.
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