First English translation of Valerio Olgiati and Markus Breitschmid's famous manifesto for a new approach to architecture in a world free of ideologies and references: essential reading for anyone interested in architecture.

More than ever, architecture needs provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels or symbols of something external to themselves.

"Non-Referential Architecture" is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two leading thinkers, architect Valerio Olgiati and theorist Markus Breitschmid, who have been exploring this issue since they first met in 2005.

In a world that increasingly rejects ideologies of any kind, Olgiati and Breitschmid propose a radical and new approach, free from rigid ideologies.