“Essay on Architecture”

 Marc Antoine Laugier’s “Essay on Architecture” expresses the author’s opinion about art
and architecture and develops a theory criticizing architecture.

 Through his use of storytelling and analysis he establishes what good and bad
architecture is.

 Laugier’s primitive hut shows how good architecture comes from simple nature and its
process achieving true perfection.

 Laugier’s primitive hut consisted of three elements,

o the column,
o the pediment,
o the entablature.