Fausto Ferrara

Featured architect publication.
Casa 1 – Formentera, Spain (2022), pp. 64–68.
Platform. Architecture and Design, Issue 55, 2025.

Architecture has no presence.
A work is an offering to the sanctuary.
The paths of life reveal nature,
Man, evoking in the individual the powers
of anticipation, renews the desire
to be and to express.
A work is created amid the overwhelming
sounds of industry, and when the dust
settles, the pyramid, echoing the silence,
offers its shadow to the sun.

Exhibition at Palazzo Bembo, 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2012).

Catalogue contribution including an essay by Franco Purini dedicated to Fausto Ferrara (p. 76).

Each spatial prototype represents a challenge between Abstraction and Figuration, Whole and Part, Light and Shadow, Content and Container, Interior and Exterior.
Producing architecture means creating places charged with emotion, evocative works; ultimately, it means bringing humanity back to reflect on the events of Nature.
Light, water, wind, sky, earth, and matter are shaped by man, captured in simple geometric forms. An apparent coldness, dictated by order, merges with the forms through light and shadow.
There is no Form or Object that does not arise from the darkness of its own shadow.
It is the alternation of Light and Shadow that space manages to evoke in a simple and essential material. And the Light begins to vibrate.