Valerio Olgiati Books

A new, exquisitely produced, elegant volume featuring the entire built work of celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati. Valerio Olgiati'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 interiors--from 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, from the visitor center of the Swiss National Park to the studio house for the Swiss musician Linard Bardill in Scharans.

An architecture-book on Valerio Olgiatis school inPaspels/Grisons, Switzerland. The book shows the masterpiece-building ofthe shooting-star of the Swiss architecture-scene in a clear and simpleway. With a text in English an German by fellow architect Alberto Dell'Antonio. Photos by Heinrich Helfenstein, Valerio Olgiati and Mira Blau.2000 numbered copys worldwide.About the Valerio Olgiati (born 1958) grew up in Flims and Chur.While studying architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology inZurich, he built his first house (Haus Fiala in Chur, 1983-84). For his,green house" (Haus Kucher in Rottenburg a./N. 1988-91) Olgiati wasawarded special mention of the German Price for Architecture. He ran anarchitectural office in Los Angeles with Frank Escher from 1993-95. In1994 and 1995 he was awarded the Artist's Grant of the SwissConfederation. In 1996, after establishing himself in Zurich, hiscompelling project for the school in Paspels won the first price in thearchitectural competition and was built between 1996 an 1998. His mostrecent project is the renovation of the ,Yellow House in Flims". Sincefall 1998, he is teaching an the Federal Institute of Technology as aguest lecturer.

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