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.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
144 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Park Books |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2019-05-29 |
| ISBN |
9783038601425 |