Henri Ciriani: BIENNALE DE SAO PAOLO 2005

"Living in the City" - 6th Sao Paulo Biennial of Architecture and Design

October 8 - December 11 2005

I think that architecture should be modern, that means it should meet the challenge of fostering the equivalence between the interior and the exterior and the dialectical relation which binds form and function.

Being modern also means to adhere to the "emotional values" which define the image of modernity and constitute its essential features: lightness, openness, transparency, fluidity, abstraction and picturality.

Satisfying needs breeds construction

Satisfying demands creates architecture

I am concerned by the will to transform, to foster the evolution of the physical space of social practice (my little utopia) and to make architecture as a way of freeing volumes from gravity and working on transparency, framing, bridging and creating tensions. We intend to use virtuality as the best way of aggregating matter in order to create public spaces that are clearly constituted but are not enclosed.

To propose abstract, painterly, plastic language as protection from narrative or symbolic deviances.