Arquitetura e voo: notas sobre um poema de Joaquim Cardozo

Abstract

This study explores the connection between sport, architecture, and poetry through the poems in the section “Arquitetura nascente & permanente e outros poemas,” which closes the book Signo Estrelado by poet Joaquim Cardozo, published in 1960. It focuses especially on the poem “O salto tripartido”, which honors Brazilian athlete Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, a world record holder and two-time Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. This analysis aims to highlight the aesthetic dimension of the athlete's performance from a poetic perspective, considering its aesthetic closeness to architecture, particularly related to the construction of Brasília, in which Cardozo was involved as a project calculator. To achieve this, the paper draws on the theoretical context of the work and primarily relies on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's writings on sport.