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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid

Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid

Breitschmid, Markus
Olgiati, Valerio

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General Architecture

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ISBN10: 303860142X
ISBN13: 9783038601425
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Published: Aug 15 2019
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.60 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
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 meeting 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.

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