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What is Spontaneous Architecture
There have always been, all over the world, people who do not feel any kind of commitment towards the rules and models endorsed by their respective cultures and, therefore, intuitively create the dwelling where they intend to live. They build for themselves the house born from their ideas, the brainchild of their unconscious: they are the builders of the imaginary, ever guided by an obsessively ruling fantasy.
It is an architecture based on amazing solutions, for it shuns the traditional patterns and uses materials considered not noble enough and thoroughly unconventional. Everywhere it has been attracting the attention of Art critics and theorists. Their practitioners - the "builders of the imaginary" - are being rediscovered and have already deserved abroad the publication of art books, critical studies, films, etc. Unfortunately the issue, so far, has barely stirred up any kind of interest in Brazil; it is time, therefore, to introduce it to the Brazilian public, since we have among us a perfect specimen of such brand of art, Casa da Flor.
Bibliography about Spontaneous Architecture
BHATTI, Bhoulbhoulaiyan. Um labyrinthe indien. Paris, Musée des Enfants du Musée d'Art Moderne, 1980. 150 p. il.
BONCOMPAIN, Claude. Le Facteur Cheval, piéton de Hauterives. Editions Le Bouquin - Pouple Libre, s.l.,s.d. 77 p. il.
DATHIER, Jean. Arquitetura de terra ou o futuro de uma tradição milenária. Rio de Janeiro, Centre Georges Pompidou, Centre de Création Industrielle/Museu de Arte Moderna, Avenir Editora, 1984. 208 p. il.
DAVID, Francis. Guide de l'art insolite. Paris, Editions Herscher,1984. 93 p. il.
GAUDÍ, Antoni. Catálogo. São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo,1988.
JOUVE, Jean-Pierre; PRÉVOST, Claude; PRÉVOST Clovis. Le Palais Idéal du facteur Cheval. Paris, A.R.I.E. Editions,1981. 360 p. il.
MONNIN, Francoise. L´ art brut. Paris, Editions Scala,1997. 125 p. il.
PRÉVOST, Claude et Clovis. Picassiette. Paris, Edition du Chêne,1978.
SCHUYT, Michael, et alii. Fantastic Architecture; personal and excentric visions. New York, Harry N. Abrahms, 1980. 247 p. il.
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