Arquitetura e montagem: O centro cultural, entre a construção do espaço e a produção da cultura

Abstract

This dissertation investigates possibilities of using montage as a method of questioning and re-signifying architecture, particularly the relationship between the construction of space and the production of culture. The research is based on the understanding of both, montage and architecture, as forms of knowledge and formal procedures. This duality, inherent to both the method and the means of study, is the basis for the dialogue established between history and the work. To look at architecture and apprehend culture, is the proposed challenge. To this end, two cultural centers - Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Kunsthal in Rotterdam - are approached as collective facilities that serve as paradigms for understanding the. urban vis-à-vis culture in contemporary times. In the first part of the work, are defined parameters for understanding montage, a term that can have multiple meanings and applications. In the second and third parts, the proposed method is tested in the study of the chosen examples, using techniques such as comparison and analogy. The argument is built both through text and images, in a procedure of zooming in and out between the building, in its particularities, and the complex web of events that permeate it. The reason for such effort is elaborating points of intersection between past historical accounts - literary, photographic, etc. - and the physical spatial presence of the work, as a critical strategy for des-montage and re-montage architecture and its social meanings.