Présentation de l'éditeur :
For years now, Swiss architecture has been grabbing international attention not only for the high general level of its buildings but for a few great names. Aside from the megastudio of Herzog and de Meuron, which builds on all five continents, Switzerland has an extensive network of small studios with a modest work that, as in the case of Peter Zumthor and Peter Märkli, have crossed the frontier and become known the world over for the care, beauty and precision of their buildings. Valerio Olgiati's work would belong to this genealogy of the patient, well-made body of work.
Valerio Olgiati became known through the school in Paspels and, a little later, through the radical reconstruction of Das Gelbe Haus -two small buildings in villages in the Swiss canton of Grisons that appeared in all the main international magazines (a+u, Baumeister, AA Files, etc.). The radical nature of his approach and the perfect execution of clear and concise ideas have enabled his work to exude a special intensity and to stand out within the new crop of Swiss architecture.
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Introductions
Textured Spatiality and Frozen Chaos by Jacques Lucan
Depicting an Architecture by Raphael Zuber
In Favour of a Reductive Architecture by Moisés Puente
Ambivalent Systems: On the Formation of Valerio Olgiati's Design by Pascal Flammer with David Zumstein
Works and Projects
Kucher House, Rottenburg am Neckar
Plan for the Cuncas area, Sils im Engadin
Redevelopment of the Souk of Beirut
School, Paspels
The Lake Cauma Project, Flims
Three condominiums, Chur
Das gelbe Haus, Flims
House in Sari d’Orcino, Corsica
Office building, Zurich
K + N House, Wollerau
Swiss National Park Visitors Centre, Zernez
Structural report: University of Lucerne by Patrick Gartmann
University of Lucerne
Gornergrat Visitors Center, Zermatt
Learning Centre, EPFL, Lausanne
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Ardia Palace, Tirana
Biography
nexus
Iconographic Autobiography by Valerio Olgiati
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