The Art of Building at the Dawn of Human Civilization: The Ontogenesis of Architecture
This book offers a new, unconventional outlook on architecture, presenting some aspects of its evolution. It demonstrates how prehistoric people developed the art of building when trying to solve increasingly complicated spatial and structural problems. The book shows the activity of building to be in synergy with the parallel advancement of the human ability to think in symbolic and abstract terms. The anthropological approach of this book will allow scientists to formulate the general principles and regularities of the development of architecture within a new field of studies, named the “Ontogenesis of Architecture”.
Marta Tobolczyk is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Vistula University, Poland. She received her PhD and DSc from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, where she has worked for 30 years. She has also taught at Iowa State University and at North Dakota State University, USA, as well as at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus.
“Dr Tobolczyk’s excellent book offers an invaluable theoretical inspiration for contemporary architects in their endeavour to preserve the cultural legacy and the original objective of house building as a balanced and honest continuation of the landscape. The study clarifies the interpretation of the true essence of “organicity” as the logic of nature, and differentiates it from the confusing “intentionally anti-structure organic designs” that we may find today. Architectural students would immensely benefit by including this book in their introductory courses on Theory and History of Architecture. At the same time, its approachable language and illustrations are accessible and interesting to all audiences who want to explore the origins, and environmental needs and challenges of human beings.”
Celina B. Barrios de Senisterra, PhD
Architect
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