The sensitivity in selecting new firms and the focus on accessibility and sustainability alone place the latest editions of CASACOR among the architecture events that demand close attention. However, this year's theme, “Corpo & Morada” (Body & Home), goes a step further, showing how the event remains attuned to the profession's emerging and provocative themes.
Fittingly, this edition sets out to discuss how our body—a sort of primal dwelling—affects and is affected by the surrounding space, shaping its own materiality. To dwell is, first and foremost, to inhabit oneself. Someone who is uncomfortable in their own skin can sleep in a thousand beds and still remain a stranger to themselves. Thus, in a way, our home is not only a reflection of who we are, but the very condition for constructing this subject we call the self.
