{"product_id":"9783038601425","title":"Non-Referential Architecture : Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid by Markus Breitschmid","description":"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 \u0026amp; Baer, was sold-out within months. This revised and slightly redesigned new edition makes this key text available again.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310828302709,"sku":"9783038601425","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783038601425.jpg?v=1762815193","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783038601425","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}