Non-Referential Architecture - Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid (Hardcover, 1,1st Published by Simonett & Baer, 2018, ISBN 9783906313191 ed.)

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. The book's first edition, published in May 2018 by Simonett & Baer, was sold-out within months. This revised and slightly redesigned new edition makes this key text available again.

General

Imprint:	Park Books
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	May 2019
From an idea by:	Valerio Olgiati
Authors:	Markus Breitschmid
Dimensions:	180 x 115 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	144
Edition:	1,1st Published by Simonett & Baer, 2018, ISBN 9783906313191 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-860142-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
LSN:	3-03-860142-X
Barcode:	9783038601425

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