Edited out of contemporary theoretical discourse yet central to the way we think about architecture

This conference set out to address the rise, fall and possible futures of the problematic and controversial term ‘primitive’. Taking place over two days in September 2004 at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff (hosted by the Architectural History and Theory Group), it aimed to attract an interdisciplinary audience and included a range of keynote speakers drawn from both academia and practice. Selected papers from the proceedings will be published in book form by Routledge in 2005.