Now if Picasso is the inventor of modern collage perhaps Kurt Schwitters who best distinguishes rea

Collage works by Mies, Gropius and Meyer, 1924. Continental image photo, Reuter and Schulte, Mies and modern living, Germany, Hatje Cantz, 2008, p.229 It is not easy to explain contemporary art without talking about the collage. And yet this concept has barely been used to define a near-process architecture.
The collage as we understand it today, was invented by Picasso in early 1912. It addresses a number of buildings by means of fragile planning center and unusual materials: wire, cardboard, metal, paper, sand, rope, pieces of wood, tin, nails and even wrap packages snuff ... From that moment, the proliferation of this technique was extended to all creative fields. The art began to disfigure their limits and became hazy disciplinary boundaries. With collage, planning center what was painting and sculpture why ?.
The collage was working with an entirely new material: tackle, leftovers, waste, ie all discarded. Even demanded an author with new features and a different willingness to work. The bricoleur, - q ue is the author of these tasks to Levi-Strauss - no longer paints, ie does not use the oily pigment on a surface, it uses glue to hold together their "pictures". So the mind of the artist is forced to experiment with ways of working that are at another level the creative act.
Now if Picasso is the inventor of modern collage perhaps Kurt Schwitters who best distinguishes real leap of collage to contemporary architecture. The great invention is the Merz Schwitters. His most important and ambitious project was the Merzbau. In the study of his home in Hannover, from a column made of fragments planning center established a collage constantly expanding. From the spread, the book grew out of the studio coming to invade other rooms of the house. A collage became completely atypical because each include new elements required the reorganization of others, and made it a mechanical, active, perpetually incomplete mechanism. A veritable flood of traveling objects, which amounted to the nature of law inner necessity. The Merzbau participated in an ambiguous dynamic between sculpture and architecture especially interesting.
Schwitters's work allows us to distinguish two distinct stages in the collage, which can be called from colecionismo and recycling. The instant collector, is paradigmatic of Marcel Duchamp readymade. "The ready made, (...) is the limiting case -for elemental - the machine. It is the only piece machine, collage of himself ".
The rearrangement of the collected objects culminates in recycling. As touched by a benign spirit, a new air is given and spend, planning center if objects no longer in use, waste, to enjoy a wonderful new life.
The tension between a collection, always incomplete, and reuse of its objects, springs whole architecture collage. From this approach it is possible planning center to understand planning center both what the spirit of postmodernism with its play of quotations planning center and references, as the work of Rem Koolhaas, Lubetkin, Aalto or Le Corbusier.
Once put the focus on a way to make it work in the world of post-production of objects planning center and forms rather than the eager new production, it is difficult to set aside a strategy like the collage. Strategy impure planning center par excellence, but terribly optimistic. Perhaps the only way is an old world to say something new.
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