Non-Referential Architecture

Olgiati, Valerio; Breitschmid, Markus

ISBN 10: 303860142X / ISBN 13: 9783038601425

Edité par Park Books, 2019

N° de réf. du vendeur 35457203-n

Synopsis :

More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside themselves.

Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two leading thinkers, architect Valerio Olgiati and theorist Markus Breitschmid, who have grappled with this problem since their first encounter in 2005. In a world that itself increasingly rejects ideologies of any kind, Olgiati and Breitschmid offer Non-Referential Architecture as a radical, new approach free from rigid ideologies. Non-referential buildings, they argue, are entities that are themselves meaningful outside a vocabulary of fixed symbols and images, and their historical connotations.

For more than a decade, Olgiati and Breitschmid's thinking has placed them at the forefront of architectural theory. Indispensable for understanding what the future might hold for architecture, Non-Referential Architecture will become a new classic.

À propos de l'auteur: Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect and a professor at the Accademia di Architettura der Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Markus Breitschmid is Professor of Architecture Theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Non-Referential Architecture
Éditeur : Park Books
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New