Silêncio

Based on two excerpts from Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s short story ‘Silêncio’, with a reading by Ricardo Vaz Trindade, we think about the various symbols and meanings that the house has acquired over time, including today.

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