The Significance of the Idea In the Architecture of Valerio Olgiati

This slim ''edition architese'' volume (the fourth in the series) offers unprecedented access to one of the world's preeminent architects: Valerio Olgiati, the award-winning Swiss designer and professor at the architecture academy in Mendriso. In an engrossing interview, Olgiati discusses the social responsibility of the architect, the difference between earlier and modern generations of architects, the influence of post-modernity, and the difficulties that confront an architect as a design is built. Accented with details from some of his most notable works, the book provides a definitive overview of Olgiati's approach to the ''organic unity'' of his ''unrelentingly precise'' architectural style. Architectural historian Markus Breitschmid adds a perceptive essay.