Fifteen built designs by the celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati in Bahrain, France, Portugal, the USA, and Switzerland

Valerio Olgiatis's latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This exquisite small volume features them all in seventy-nine striking color photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati's intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric interiorsfrom the museum for the UNESCO world cultural heritage site in Bahrain to the Céline flagship store in Miami, from the office building for Baloise Insurance's headquarters in Basel to the bedroom of the French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière in Paris, from the visitor center of the Swiss National Park to the studio house for the Swiss musician Linard Bardill in Scharans.

• New, exquisitely produced small monograph on the work of celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati
• Features Olgiati's fifteen realized designs, half of which published in this book for the first time as finished buildings
• With photographs by Paulo Catrica, Francesca D'Appuzzo, Heinrich Helfenstein, Christian Kerez, Félix Michaud, Mikael Olsson, Bas Princen, and Javier Miguel Verme

Autorentext

Valerio Olgiati, geboren 1958, ist Architekt und arbeitet zusammen mit seiner Frau Tamara vom gemeinsamen Büro in Flims, Schweiz, aus an Projekten für öffentliche und private Bauten in verschiedenen Ländern. Olgiati hat zahlreiche viel beachtete Bücher veröffentlicht, zuletzt 'Nicht-Referenzielle Architektur' zusammen mit Markus Breitschmid.