The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture
Previous Conferences // 1998: Megaform as Urban Landscape // Speakers
21 - 23 June 1998

Henri Ciriani

Educated in his native Lima, Peru and practising in Paris since 1969, Henri Ciriani first came to public attention in 1980 with his Noisy II apartment complex, known as La Barre a Marne, built in the new town of Marne-la-Vallee. This was Ciriani's first attempt at realizing his concept of a piece urbaine, an urban configuration that was able to reconcile the modular, orthogonal rationality of modern housing with a morphological enclosure capable of sustaining more traditional notions of bounded public space. In one way or another this concept would inform all his subsequent housing work in Saint Denis, Evry, The Hague and various districts of Paris between 1982 and1995. His two most important institutional buildings to date have been the Museum of the Great War at Peronne (1992) and the very striking Arles Archaeological Museum (1993) built on a triangular plan and faced in deep blue glass (vitrolite). During his many years at the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, where he is now a full professor, Ciriani was in the habit of structuring his studio teaching around the theme of the urban megaform. Among his numerous awards, he is a recipient of the Silver Medal of Colegio de Arquitectos, Peru (1985) and a member of the Legion d'Honneur, France.
Henri Ciriani

Arles Archaeological Museum, Arles, France
Photo: Jean-Marie Monthiers








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