Six Significant Landscapes

The fourth episode of Spatial Aphorisms contrasts Wallace Stevens’ “Six Significant Landscapes” with six works of Portuguese architecture, which are situated on the threshold of the landscape that the words and their rhythm show us, and that other landscape that the work of architecture creates in the place, as the one it contains within itself, as well as the one that results from the metamorphosis of the first two, evoking, like the poem, a unity between man and nature.

Credits:
Images: André Cepeda (courtesy of the artist).
Music: ‘USA IV: Manifest’, by Dan Deacon

Programme on the poetics of architecture. While the philosophical aphorism seeks to express a truth, the literary aphorism is characterised by its expressiveness. The programme aims to highlight this poetic dwelling that the word provides, referring to the relationship of spaces and bodies with life.