Non-Referential Architecture - Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid
Author(s): Valerio Olgiati; Markus Breitschmid
ARCHITECTURAL THEORY | PARK BOOKS
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 meeting 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Park Books
- : Park Books
- : 01 August 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Valerio Olgiati; Markus Breitschmid
- : Hardback
- : 144