Description
| Product ID: | 9783038601425 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Non-Referential Architecture |
| Subtitle: | Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid |
| Authors: | Author: Markus Breitschmid |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Theory of architecture, Theory of architecture |
| Description: | Demonstrates a new approach to architecture in a world increasingly free of ideologies and references and offers a foundation for conceiving a non-referential architecture in such a non-referential world 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Park Books |
| Publisher Name: | Park Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-05-29 |