- Editorial:
- REVISTA 2G
- Materia
- Libros varios
- ISBN:
- 978-84-252-2088-3
- Páginas:
- 144
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
- Colección:
- ARQUITECTURA
2G VALERIO OLGIATI 37
Table of contents: 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 |
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.
