Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid

Olgiati, Valerio; Breitschmid, Markus

ISBN 10: 303860142X / ISBN 13: 9783038601425

Edité par Park Books, 2019

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• Titre: Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid
• Éditeur: Park Books
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 303860142X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783038601425
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good

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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.