Merzbau, the grave of the logocentric self: He who screams becomes the space

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  • Pedro Pousada Department of Architecture at Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (FCTUC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.62320

Palavras-chave:

Merzbau. Kurt Schwitters. Modernism. Art. Architecture.

Resumo

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.

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Biografia do Autor

Pedro Pousada, Department of Architecture at Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (FCTUC)

Artist and professor at the Department of Architecture at Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (FCTUC), Portugal, and a PhD in Contemporary Art by the College of the Arts from the same University. He holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon (2002) and a doctorate in Architecture from FCTUC, University of Coimbra (2010).

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2016-05-01

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Pousada, P. (2016). Merzbau, the grave of the logocentric self: He who screams becomes the space. PORTO ARTE: Revista De Artes Visuais (Qualis A2), 20(34). https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.62320

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