Poética dos materiais na arquitetura contemporânea

Abstract

This article is about the convergence between art and architecture in a poetics of materials. Starting from the reflection of “Dentro do nevoeiro” (Ubu, 2018), by Guilherme Wisnik, we investigate to what extent certain art and architecture can still promote a sense of amazement in a world characterized by the global dimension of media spectacle and techno-science. It is in the poetics of clouding that we locate residual and emerging forms of resistance to hegemonic art and architecture in neoliberal capitalism, such as the photographs by Michael Wesely; the installations by Olafur Eliasson; and the buildings of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's SANAA office; and Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio's Diller + Scofidio office. It is in the form of the immaterial presence of mist that the works of these artists and architects open up a field of indetermination in relation to becoming, insofar as they are opposed to the usual communication and hegemonic images that only reinforce the existing reality.