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Introduces a <strong>new</strong> approach in architectural<br />

thinking<br />

Offers a foundation for conceiving architecture<br />

in a world largely free of ideologies and<br />

references<br />

Highlights the general importance and framework<br />

of architecture today<br />

Valerio Olgiati is one of Switzerland’s most<br />

renowned contemporary architects whose<br />

writings and lectures are received widely<br />

around the world<br />

Valerio Olgiati and Markus<br />

Breitschmid’s manifesto for<br />

a <strong>new</strong> architecture in a world<br />

free of ideologies and,<br />

therefore, references<br />

More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a <strong>new</strong> path beyond the traditional<br />

notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside<br />

themselves.<br />

Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a <strong>new</strong> architecture.<br />

It brings together two leading thinkers, architect Valerio Olgiati and theorist Markus<br />

Breitschmid, who have grappled with this problem since their first encounter in <strong>20</strong>05.<br />

In a world that itself increasingly rejects ideologies of any kind, Olgiati and Breitschmid<br />

offer Non-Referential Architecture as a radical, <strong>new</strong> approach free from rigid ideologies.<br />

Non-referential buildings, they argue, are entities that are themselves meaningful outside<br />

a vocabulary of fixed symbols and images and their historical connotations.<br />

For more than a decade, Olgiati and Breitschmid’s thinking has placed them at the<br />

forefront of architectural theory. Indispensable for understanding what the future<br />

might hold for architecture, Non-Referential Architecture has become a <strong>new</strong> classic.<br />

Valerio Olgiati runs his studio in Flims, Switzerland,<br />

working on projects for public and private<br />

clients in various countries. He is also a professor<br />

at Accademia di architettura, Università<br />

della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio.<br />

Markus Breitschmid is professor of architecture<br />

theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State<br />

University.<br />

Non-Referential Architecture<br />

Ideated by Valerio Olgiati—Written by Markus<br />

Breitschmid<br />

Hardback<br />

144 pages, 1 b/w illustration<br />

11.5 × 18 cm (4½ × 7 in)<br />

978-3-03860-142-5 English<br />

978-3-03860-141-8 German<br />

978-3-03860-143-2 Italian<br />

sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ <strong>20</strong>.00 | $ 25.00<br />

Available<br />

EN GE IT<br />

ISBN 978-3-03860-142-5 ISBN 978-3-03860-141-8 ISBN 978-3-03860-143-2<br />

NEW TITLES 8/9

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