Alberto Campo Baeza

Sisyphus

Building with stone is building with gravity, as Architecture has always done. So when architects discovered they could also build with light, that they could dominate it, they began to derive enjoyment from architecture, because it was then that the miracle occurred of light conquering gravity. Gravity and light, the two central themes of Architecture. In this pavilion for Pibamarmi we want to highlight the value of gravity, of the weight of the boulder over a man’s head: the myth of Sisyphus.