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Valerio Olgiati

December 02, 2023

Valerio Olgiati (born 1958) is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland, after which he lived in Switzerland, followed by Los Angeles in the United States.

Valerio Olgiati
Born1958 (age 64–65)
Chur, Switzerland
OccupationArchitect

He made a name for himself with the School Building in Paspels[1] in 1998 and the Yellow House Museum in Flims[2] in 1999. Other recognized buildings by him are the House for the Musician/Atelier Bardill in Scharans,[3] the Villa Além in Alentejo,[4] the UNESCO World Heritage Bahrain Pearling Trail Visiting Center in Muharraq,[5] and the Baloise Insurance Building in Basel.[6]

Architectural theory edit

 
Schoolhouse Paspels
 
Yellow House Flims
 
Atelier Bardill, Scharans
 
Villa Além, Alentejo
 
UNESCO World Heritage Pearling Site Visiting Center, Muharraq
 
Baloise Insurance Building, Basel
 
Celine flagship store, Miami

Olgiati calls his work "non-referential architecture", the title of a 2018 treatise by Olgiati and architectural theoretician Markus Breitschmid about the social purpose of architecture for the people of the 21st century.[7]

Olgiati and Breitschmid write that "non-referential architecture is not an architecture that subsists as a referential vessel or as a symbol of something outside itself. Non-referential buildings are entities that are themselves meaningful and sense-making and, as such, no less the embodiment of society than buildings were in the past when they were the bearers of common social ideals."[8]

The first documented use of the term "non-referential" in architecture appears in a reprint of an interview between Olgiati and Breitschmid in the Italian architecture journal Domus.[9] In 2014, Breitschmid publishes a rebuttal titled "Architektur leitet sich von Architektur ab" (Architecture is Derived from Architecture) in the Swiss journal Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, thereby responding to an architectural claim made by others that attempts to imbue meaning into architecture from the extra-architectural, such as the economic, ecological, political.[10] Architect Christian Kerez investigated the limits of referentiality and speaks of "non-referential space" as a quality of his contribution for the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016.[11] In the same year, architect Peter Eisenman points out that architecture has been moving toward a non-referential objectivity for some time, in as much as architectural form is increasingly reduced “to a pure reality.”[12]

In 2018, Olgiati and Breitschmid published the architectural treatise Non-Referential Architecture. It analyses the societal currents of the early 21st century and argues that those currents are radically different from the epoch of postmodernity.[13] The book proposes a new framework for architecture and defines the seven underlying principles for non-referential architecture:[14] 1) experience of space; 2) oneness; 3) newness; 4) construction; 5) contradiction; 6) order; 7) sensemaking.

One of the hallmarks of non-referential architecture, according to Olgiati, is that each building exists for itself. Each building is governed by an architectural idea – and that idea has to be form-generative and sense-making.[15] "Non-referential architecture denotes but it refuses to explain or narrate and it leaves behind any vestiges of a theatrical mode of persuasion and propagation."[16] Describing the intent of the exhibition ‘Inscriptions: Architecture before Speech’, held at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2018, K. Michael Hays argues that today’s architecture presupposes “not a particular meaning, but a specific kind of potentiality — a non-semantic materiality, a non-referential construct that can be developed into an actual architectural project.”[17]

Career edit

Olgiati mentioned that the most important step for his formation as an architect was his temporary emigration to Los Angeles, and not his upbringing in a specific culture, country, or landscape nor was it his architectural education. According to Olgiati, living in the radically heterogeneous United States of America allowed him to begin to understand the world in formal and natural terms and not in symbolic and historical terms.[18]

 
Zug-Schleife, Zug

This shift away from basing architecture on any kind of referentiality found its early theoretical form in his Iconographic Autobiography, first published in 2006.[19] The Iconographic Autobiography is an anthology of 55 illustrations. The Iconographic Autobiography foreshadows non-referential architecture in as much as it points to references, yet these references are not meaningful.[20] Olgiati has said that he believes that only basic insight from the experience of space is able to move architecture of the present time within its highly heterogeneous society.[21]

Valerio Olgiati operates his architecture office with his wife Tamara and his staff in Portugal and Switzerland.[22] Among other venues, his work has been the subject of single exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, and at the Former Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.[23] Olgiati has held various teaching appointments, among them the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University, at ETH Zürich, at Cornell University and at the AA in London. Olgiati holds a professorship at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio since 2002.[24]

References edit

  1. ^ Martin Tschanz. “Schulhaus, Paspels, Graubünden, 1996-98,” in: Anna Meseure, Martin Tschanz, Wilfried Wang (eds.), Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert, Volume V: Schweiz, München/Frankfurt a.M.: Prestel/DAM, 1998, p.314f.
  2. ^ Hubertus Adam. “Von der Idee zur Erscheinung. Valerio Olgiatis Umbau des ‘Gelben Hauses’ in Flims,” in: Neue Züricher Zeitung, October 29, 1999, p.66.
  3. ^ –, “Valerio Olgiati. Atelier Bardill, Scharans Switzerland,” in: a+u, 452, 2008, Tokyo, pp.54-61.
  4. ^ Tom Vanderbilt, “Castle in the Sky,” in: The Wall Street Journal Magazine, New York City: September 2016, pp.
  5. ^ Ali Ismail Karimi, “Pearling Path Visitors Center by Valerio Olgiati,” in: Architectural Record, 207, No.3, New York
  6. ^ Hubertus Adam, “Die Kraft der Materie,” in: archithese, no. 1, Zurich: 2021, pp.9-15.
  7. ^ Valerio Olgiati, Markus Breitschmid. Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati. Written by Markus
  8. ^ Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati. Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, 2018, p. 13.
  9. ^ Valerio Olgiati [in an interview with Markus Breitschmid], “Sulla non referezialita” in: Domus No. 974, Milano: 13/2013, pp. 45–46.
  10. ^ Markus Breitschmid. “Architektur leitet sich von Architektur ab” in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Zurich: 9/2014, 45-47.
  11. ^ "A Combination of Wonder and Structure: Christian Kerez on Swiss Architecture". 24 March 2017.
  12. ^ Architecture fiction. Eisenman[dead link]
  13. ^ Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati; Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, 2018.
  14. ^ Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati; Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, 2018, p. 7.
  15. ^ Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati; Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, 2018, pp. 13-28.
  16. ^ Non-Referential Architecture. Ideated by Valerio Olgiati; Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, 2018, p. 97.
  17. ^ "'inscriptions' exhibition at the harvard GSD surveys architecture before speech". March 2018.
  18. ^ Markus Breitschmid, “Valerio Olgiati’s Ideational Inventory,” in: El Croquis, No. 156, Madrid: 2011, pp.18-19.
  19. ^ Valerio Olgiati. “Iconographic Autobiography,” in: 2G, n.37, Barcelona: 2006, pp.135-141.
  20. ^ Olgiati/Breitschmid, “After Postmodernity: Non-Referential World,” in: op.cit., pp.32-41.
  21. ^ –, “Biographies,” in: op.cit., p.266.
  22. ^ –, “Valerio Olgiati. Non-Referential Architecture,” in: a+u, 601, 2020, p.4.
  23. ^ –, “Valerio Olgiati. Non-Referential Architecture,” in: a+u, 601, 2020, p.5.
  24. ^ –, “Valerio Olgiati, 1996 – 2011,” in: El Croquis, No. 156, Madrid: 2011, pp.18-19. 17 –, “Valerio Olgiati. Non-Referential Architecture,” in: op.cit., p.5.

Monographs edit

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lived in Switzerland followed by Los Angeles in the United States Valerio OlgiatiBorn1958 age 64 65 Chur SwitzerlandOccupationArchitectHe made a name for himself with the School Building in Paspels 1 in 1998 and the Yellow House Museum in Flims 2 in 1999 Other recognized buildings by him are the House for the Musician Atelier Bardill in Scharans 3 the Villa Alem in Alentejo 4 the UNESCO World Heritage Bahrain Pearling Trail Visiting Center in Muharraq 5 and the Baloise Insurance Building in Basel 6 Contents 1 Architectural theory 2 Career 3 References 4 Monographs 5 External linksArchitectural theory edit nbsp Schoolhouse Paspels nbsp Yellow House Flims nbsp Atelier Bardill Scharans nbsp Villa Alem Alentejo nbsp UNESCO World Heritage Pearling Site Visiting Center Muharraq nbsp Baloise Insurance Building Basel nbsp Celine flagship store MiamiOlgiati calls his work non referential architecture the title of a 2018 treatise by Olgiati and architectural theoretician Markus Breitschmid about the social purpose of architecture for the people of the 21st century 7 Olgiati and Breitschmid write that non referential architecture is not an architecture that subsists as a referential vessel or as a symbol of something outside itself Non referential buildings are entities that are themselves meaningful and sense making and as such no less the embodiment of society than buildings were in the past when they were the bearers of common social ideals 8 The first documented use of the term non referential in architecture appears in a reprint of an interview between Olgiati and Breitschmid in the Italian architecture journal Domus 9 In 2014 Breitschmid publishes a rebuttal titled Architektur leitet sich von Architektur ab Architecture is Derived from Architecture in the Swiss journal Werk Bauen Wohnen thereby responding to an architectural claim made by others that attempts to imbue meaning into architecture from the extra architectural such as the economic ecological political 10 Architect Christian Kerez investigated the limits of referentiality and speaks of non referential space as a quality of his contribution for the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016 11 In the same year architect Peter Eisenman points out that architecture has been moving toward a non referential objectivity for some time in as much as architectural form is increasingly reduced to a pure reality 12 In 2018 Olgiati and Breitschmid published the architectural treatise Non Referential Architecture It analyses the societal currents of the early 21st century and argues that those currents are radically different from the epoch of postmodernity 13 The book proposes a new framework for architecture and defines the seven underlying principles for non referential architecture 14 1 experience of space 2 oneness 3 newness 4 construction 5 contradiction 6 order 7 sensemaking One of the hallmarks of non referential architecture according to Olgiati is that each building exists for itself Each building is governed by an architectural idea and that idea has to be form generative and sense making 15 Non referential architecture denotes but it refuses to explain or narrate and it leaves behind any vestiges of a theatrical mode of persuasion and propagation 16 Describing the intent of the exhibition Inscriptions Architecture before Speech held at Harvard University s Graduate School of Design in 2018 K Michael Hays argues that today s architecture presupposes not a particular meaning but a specific kind of potentiality a non semantic materiality a non referential construct that can be developed into an actual architectural project 17 Career editOlgiati mentioned that the most important step for his formation as an architect was his temporary emigration to Los Angeles and not his upbringing in a specific culture country or landscape nor was it his architectural education According to Olgiati living in the radically heterogeneous United States of America allowed him to begin to understand the world in formal and natural terms and not in symbolic and historical terms 18 nbsp Zug Schleife ZugThis shift away from basing architecture on any kind of referentiality found its early theoretical form in his Iconographic Autobiography first published in 2006 19 The Iconographic Autobiography is an anthology of 55 illustrations The Iconographic Autobiography foreshadows non referential architecture in as much as it points to references yet these references are not meaningful 20 Olgiati has said that he believes that only basic insight from the experience of space is able to move architecture of the present time within its highly heterogeneous society 21 Valerio Olgiati operates his architecture office with his wife Tamara and his staff in Portugal and Switzerland 22 Among other venues his work has been the subject of single exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London and at the Former Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City 23 Olgiati has held various teaching appointments among them the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University at ETH Zurich at Cornell University and at the AA in London Olgiati holds a professorship at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio since 2002 24 References editConstructs such as ibid loc cit and idem are discouraged by Wikipedia s style guide for footnotes as they are easily broken Please improve this article by replacing them with named references quick guide or an abbreviated title September 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Martin Tschanz Schulhaus Paspels Graubunden 1996 98 in Anna Meseure Martin Tschanz Wilfried Wang eds Architektur im 20 Jahrhundert Volume V Schweiz Munchen Frankfurt a M Prestel DAM 1998 p 314f Hubertus Adam Von der Idee zur Erscheinung Valerio Olgiatis Umbau des Gelben Hauses in Flims in Neue Zuricher Zeitung October 29 1999 p 66 Valerio Olgiati Atelier Bardill Scharans Switzerland in a u 452 2008 Tokyo pp 54 61 Tom Vanderbilt Castle in the Sky in The Wall Street Journal Magazine New York City September 2016 pp Ali Ismail Karimi Pearling Path Visitors Center by Valerio Olgiati in Architectural Record 207 No 3 New York Hubertus Adam Die Kraft der Materie in archithese no 1 Zurich 2021 pp 9 15 Valerio Olgiati Markus Breitschmid Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 p 13 Valerio Olgiati in an interview with Markus Breitschmid Sulla non referezialita in Domus No 974 Milano 13 2013 pp 45 46 Markus Breitschmid Architektur leitet sich von Architektur ab in Werk Bauen Wohnen Zurich 9 2014 45 47 A Combination of Wonder and Structure Christian Kerez on Swiss Architecture 24 March 2017 Architecture fiction Eisenman dead link Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 p 7 Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 pp 13 28 Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 p 97 inscriptions exhibition at the harvard GSD surveys architecture before speech March 2018 Markus Breitschmid Valerio Olgiati s Ideational Inventory in El Croquis No 156 Madrid 2011 pp 18 19 Valerio Olgiati Iconographic Autobiography in 2G n 37 Barcelona 2006 pp 135 141 Olgiati Breitschmid After Postmodernity Non Referential World in op cit pp 32 41 Biographies in op cit p 266 Valerio Olgiati Non Referential Architecture in a u 601 2020 p 4 Valerio Olgiati Non Referential Architecture in a u 601 2020 p 5 Valerio Olgiati 1996 2011 in El Croquis No 156 Madrid 2011 pp 18 19 17 Valerio Olgiati Non Referential Architecture in op cit p 5 Monographs editValerio Olgiati a u No 601 Tokyo 10 2020 ISBN 978 4 900212 56 5 Arquitectura No Referencial Ideado por Valerio Olgiati Escrito por Markus Breitschmid Ciudad de Mexico Arquine 2020 ISBN 978 607 9489 74 8 Architettura Non Referenziale Ideato da Valerio Olgiati Scritto da Markus Breitschmid Zurich Park Books 2019 ISBN 978 3 03860 143 2 Nicht Referenzielle Architektur Gedacht von Valerio Olgiati Geschrieben von Markus Breitschmid 2 Auflage Zurich Park Books 2019 ISBN 978 3 03860 141 8 Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid 2nd edition Zurich Park Books 2019 ISBN 978 3 03860 142 5 Nicht Referenzielle Architektur Gedacht von Valerio Olgiati Geschrieben von Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 ISBN 978 3 906313 20 7 Non Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati Written by Markus Breitschmid Basel Simonett amp Baer 2018 ISBN 978 3 906313 19 1 Valerio Olgiati Projekte 2009 2017 Basel Simonett amp Baer 2017 ISBN 978 3 906313 14 6 Valerio Olgiati The Idea of Architecture Ciudad de Mexico Arquine 2018 The Images of Architects Editor Valerio Olgiati Quart Verlag GmbH Luzern 2013 ISBN 978 3 03761 069 5 World Architecture VALERIO OLGIATI Hello China Beijing Nr 266 2012 ISSN 1002 4832 A Lecture by Valerio Olgiati Birkhauser Verlag Basel Switzerland 2011 English ISBN 978 3 0346 0783 4 German ISBN 978 3 0346 0782 7 Spanish ISBN 978 3 0346 0787 2 French ISBN 978 3 0346 0784 1 Italian ISBN 978 3 0346 0785 8 ヴァレリオ オルジャティ 講演録 ISBN 978 3 0346 0786 5 108 pages Valerio Olgiati at the Museum ヴァレリオ オルジャティ展 Editor Hosaka Kenjiro National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo Japan 2011 2012 Japanese and English ISBN 978 4 9902409 3 6 40 pages El Croquis 156 Valerio Olgiati 1996 2011 croquis editorial Madrid Spain 2011 ISSN 0212 5633 ISBN 978 84 88386 65 6 215 pages Valerio Olgiati Parliament Entrance Chur editor Grisons Building Department Switzerland 2011 German ISBN 978 3 9523831 0 0 English ISBN 978 3 9523831 3 1 Italian ISBN 978 3 9523831 1 7 Romansh ISBN 978 3 9523831 2 4 24 pages Valerio Olgiati Weber Auditorium Plantahof editor Grisons Building Department Switzerland 2011 German ISBN 978 3 9523831 4 8 English ISBN 978 3 9523831 5 5 24 pages Darco Magazine monograph Valerio Olgiati Darco Editions Matosinhos Portugal 2010 ISSN 1646 950X 236 pages Dado Built and Inhabited by Rudolf Olgiati and Valerio Olgiati Birkhauser Verlag Basel 2010 English ISBN 978 3 0346 0430 7 German ISBN 978 3 0346 0375 1 100 pages Valerio Olgiati edited by Laurent Stalder Texts by Mario Carpo Bruno Reichlin and Laurent Stalder Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Koln 2008 1st Edition Quart Verlag Luzern 2010 2nd edition German ISBN 978 3 03761 031 2 English ISBN 978 3 03761 030 5 192 pages The Significance of the Idea in the Architecture of Valerio Olgiati Text in German and English by Markus Breitschmid Verlag Niggli AG Switzerland 2008 ISBN 978 3 7212 0676 0 80 pages Valerio Olgiati Scharans House for a Musician Edition Dino Simonett Zurich 2007 ISBN 978 3 905562 54 5 64 pages Valerio Olgiati Conversation with Students Edited by Markus Breitschmid Virginia Tech Architecture Publications USA 2007 ISBN 978 0 9794296 3 7 63 pages 2G Valerio Olgiati Gustavo Gili Barcelona n 37 2006 ISBN 978 84 252 2088 3 143 pages Valerio Olgiati PLAN 1 100 Edition Dino Simonett 2004 ISBN 3 905562 13 8 64 pages Valerio Olgiati Das Gelbe Haus Kunsthaus Bregenz archiv kunst architektur Werkdokumente 19 2000 Verlag Gerd Hatje ISBN 3 7757 1004 3 82 pages 14 Studentenprojekte bei Valerio Olgiati 1998 2000 Quart Verlag 2000 ISBN 3 907631 04 8 66 pages VALERIO OLGIATI Das Gelbe Haus Publikation zur Ausstellung an der ETH Zurich 28 Mai 15 Juli 1999 gta Verlag ETH Zurich ISBN 3 85676 091 1 18 pages Valerio Olgiati PASPELS Edition Dino Simonett 1998 ISBN 3 9521375 5 3 65 pagesExternal links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valerio Olgiati website Valerio Olgiati at archinform Valerio Olgiati at nextroom 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