#dagarama

Jan Głuszak Dagarama (1937–2000) was a poet, philosopher, visionary and one of the leading representatives of Polish futurist architecture. Although he considered himself an ‘anti-architect’, Głuszak shared the modernist conviction (even moral obligation) that it was only by harnessing the untamed powers of the imagination and moving beyond conventional materials and technologies that one could truly create a space for living and dreaming. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Głuszak terminated his architectural studies at the Kraków University of Technology, but continued to develop his own projects and to define a highly distinctive mythical architectural manifesto articulated in his treatise, Utopia Documented – De Labore Solis (From the Hardship of the Sun). In 1975 he won a prestigious award for architects at Terra I, an acclaimed architectural festival in Poland.