Henri Ciriani
Address:
Atelier Ciriani – Architecture
61 Rue Pascal
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Tel. 0033(0)1 43374100
French architect of Peruvian descent. Study and first vocational experiences in Peru. 1959 – 64 developed single family houses and housing settlements, which show the influence of the classical modern trend still. 1964 come Ciriani with a state scholarship to Paris. While the first ten years is involved it as coworkers of different architect’s offices in important competitions. In this time develops an architecture, which tries with the new aesthetic means of the Pop kind from the classical modern trend to emanzipieren (airport Luxembourg, 1967; City hall Amsterdam, 1967). 1976 own office. To 1982 large housing developments in Noisy (1980 and 1981) and Saint Denis (1982). 1983 “Grand Prix national de l’Architecture”. 1989 kindergarten in Torcy. Ciriani characterizes an architecture of the plastic, geometrical spatialness, which freed themselves from the dogmas of the classical modern trend and these in best tradition developed further.