Where method and poetics intertwine like sap flowing through the pine forest, connecting deep roots to crowns that touch the sky.
This space emerges from a conversation about the house where I write—designed by António Baroseiro for my maternal grandfather, where once a "Canticle of Despair and Hope" was written overlooking the sea. Here, research into how modern architecture became normalized in São Pedro de Moel finds its living laboratory.
"A kind of 'digital curiosity cabinet' where method and poetics intertwine... Baroseiro's project that never had the opportunity to give wings to modernity would find here a space of deferred, oblique, unexpected flight."
— Inaugural dialogue, June 28, 2025
How modernist principles became integrated into the local architectural expression of São Pedro de Moel, through the work of António Baroseiro.
Real-time demonstration of how knowledge is constructed dialogically, through the very digital architecture of this space.
"Meu Deus, aqui estou serenamente, neste entardecer de Agosto em que tudo parece mais luminoso e as sombras das árvores se adensam e alongam nos pinhais!" — João Frade Correia, 1970. Written on the balcony of the house designed by Baroseiro.