The primitive hut
Laugier (1753): four living trees for columns, branches laid across for the entablature, a pitched roof for the pediment. Beside them stand the same parts in stone.
The rules it illustrates
The primitive hut. Judge every building against the first shelter: four trees for columns, branches laid across them for the entablature, and a pitched roof whose end makes the pediment. These three are the essential parts; all else is added.
The four elements. Understand every building as a combination of four elements (the hearth, the roof on its supports, the enclosure and the mound), each descended from a craft: ceramics, carpentry, weaving and masonry.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Neoclassical.
In the chapters Enlightenment and Revival.