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A Meta-Baroque Allegory for an Architectural Concept
This paper makes an argument for a reactive architecture – as an architectural apparatus or a “meta-machine” – in which the body is the active element of a metamorphosis. The meta-Baroque concept is, in this circumstance, at the core of this reactive architecture. It is its maxim. As that maxim derives from the universe of Gilles Deleuze, in particular the allegory of the Baroque House, and Deleuze and Guattari’s Desiring-Machines, it is a rather abstract one, one that is embedded in a transdisciplinary mesh. It is a concept that evolves around the idea of a specific house that resides in our body, as something close to our soul. A house dissolved into an interior universe; open. It is this state of being open that will give rise to the meta-Baroque concept: a changeable architecture, in space and time, connected with the centre of our body through continuous inter-connections, as a new house-machine. In addition to the philosophical aspects, the transdisciplinary mesh that supports the meta-Baroque requires reinforcement from two more protagonists: Kurt Schwitters and his Merzbau – a universe of interiority in a constant alteration fold, an intraworld; and Louise Bourgeois and her Femme Maison – as a testament to (our/her) body as a home, an intrabody. These inter and trans-relationships will guide us on the continuous path to a world – a meta-Baroque world. As Muriel Combes puts it: going from knowing the relation to knowing as relation.
A Meta-Baroque Allegory for an Architectural Concept
This paper makes an argument for a reactive architecture – as an architectural apparatus or a “meta-machine” – in which the body is the active element of a metamorphosis. The meta-Baroque concept is, in this circumstance, at the core of this reactive architecture. It is its maxim. As that maxim derives from the universe of Gilles Deleuze, in particular the allegory of the Baroque House, and Deleuze and Guattari’s Desiring-Machines, it is a rather abstract one, one that is embedded in a transdisciplinary mesh. It is a concept that evolves around the idea of a specific house that resides in our body, as something close to our soul. A house dissolved into an interior universe; open. It is this state of being open that will give rise to the meta-Baroque concept: a changeable architecture, in space and time, connected with the centre of our body through continuous inter-connections, as a new house-machine. In addition to the philosophical aspects, the transdisciplinary mesh that supports the meta-Baroque requires reinforcement from two more protagonists: Kurt Schwitters and his Merzbau – a universe of interiority in a constant alteration fold, an intraworld; and Louise Bourgeois and her Femme Maison – as a testament to (our/her) body as a home, an intrabody. These inter and trans-relationships will guide us on the continuous path to a world – a meta-Baroque world. As Muriel Combes puts it: going from knowing the relation to knowing as relation.
A Meta-Baroque Allegory for an Architectural Concept
Maria João Soares (author)
2018
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, Architecture , NA1-9428
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