TY - JOUR AU - Pousada, Pedro PY - 2016/05/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Merzbau, the grave of the logocentric self: He who screams becomes the space JF - PORTO ARTE: Revista de Artes Visuais (Qualis A2) JA - POARTE VL - 20 IS - 34 SE - Versão | Version DO - 10.22456/2179-8001.62320 UR - https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/PortoArte/article/view/62320 SP - AB - This article will discuss the Merzbau in Hannover as a "para-architecture" experience and as a doctrine on environmental comfort, connected to intense mnemonic feeling and relaxation. The Merzbau, the Gothic cubic "Traumhaus" (dream house) by Kurt Schwitters, is depicted here as a laboratory of sensory stimuli where an aesthetic control of oblivion, and of annoyance, has been practiced. ER -