Non-Referential Architecture
Non-Referential Architecture
Ideated by Valerio Olgiati, written by Markus Breitschmid
Park Books, August 2019
Hardcover | 4-1/2 x 7 inches | 144 pages | 1 illustration | English | ISBN: 978-3038601425 | $25.00
Publisher Description:
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.dDAB Commentary:
I must admit to rolling my eyes when seeing that this book was "ideated by" Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati. The phrase came across as trendy, buzz-wordy and even a bit highbrow, so it didn'...
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