Architecture, like many other things (music, painting) has lost its definition. It is up to each architect to define it for herself or himself.
I do not believe that architecture today can be created out of a preconceived methodology.
Once the circumstances involved in the project are taken into consideration, I believe that true architecture can only be the product of a process of trial and error based on intuition and craft.

Lucas Rios Giordano

Lucas Rios Giordano was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Montevideo, where he graduated in 1979. His background includes studies in painting, modern theater (with Inx Bayerthal) and filmmaking (New York University). In 1980 he took a one year journey looking at architecture of the present and the past in the United States, Europe, Asia and Egypt.

During the first years of his architectural practice, in the early nineteen eighties in South America, Rios Giordano was involved in the design and supervision of big industrial projects, among them bottling plants for The Coca-Cola Company and a tire factory using long span structures made of post-stressed concrete. A mausoleum, also made of reinforced concrete, was another building of this period, which came to an end when he moved to Los Angeles in 1989.

During the early nineteen nineties Rios Giordano worked for Eric Owen Moss. He also taught a Design Studio at Woodbury University from 1992 to 1997. In the meantime he developed a private practice, participating in competitions and building several projects back in Montevideo. The experience of building back there after having gone through the process of designing for a completely different place and with different materials. generated a series of works that became a reflection on the idea of place. It is his intent that his works be deeply rooted in the places where they belong as well as in the personality and the story of the architect who designed them.

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