Atlas do Corpo e da Imaginação

Based on the book Atlas do Corpo e da Imaginação by Gonçalo M. Tavares, the seventh episode of Aforismos Espaciais challenges the common understanding of the body-space relationship in architecture by reading a fragment of this book under the title “O Corpo que faz Casa”. To the normative body, we contrast a sensitive body and, on its threshold, a body without organs (or body-sensation).

Reading of an excerpt from Atlas of the Body and Imagination: Ricardo Vaz Trindade

Credits:
Images: 01 – Termas de Vals (Peter Zumthor), photograph by Walter Mair; 02 – The Bride, Diller + Scofidio; 03 – The Puppet, Diller + Scofidio; 04 – The Balance, Diller + Scofidio
Music: “In the Flowers”, by Animal Collective

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