Non-Referential Architecture : Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid Hardback
by Markus Breitschmid
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 1 b&w
- Publisher:Park Books
- Publication Date:29/05/2019
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- ISBN:9783038601425
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 1 b&w
- Publisher:Park Books
- Publication Date:29/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783038601425