The Simple House
Along this part of the Alentejo Coast various abandoned houses exist scattered across the landscape. Traces of whitewash still cling to many of them, covering the thick walls, supported by counterforts disproportionate in relation to the constructions’ modest proportions. They are simple volumes with few openings that establish a totally reciprocal relationship with the landscape, possibly like the people that live inside them. It could be said that in their laconic abandonment, they are as distant as possible from contemporaneity, the...
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