Valerio Olgiati (born 1958 in Chur, Switzerland) is a Swiss
architect. He studied architecture at ETH Zurich. Having worked first in Zurich and then in Los Angeles, in 1966 he opened his own practice in Zurich and in 2008 with his wife Tamara Olgiati in Films. His "monolithic" work and his sense of detail give his work a minimalist and surprisingly sensitive force. He advocates a cultural, not political architecture that is fundamentally non-contextual and non-referential. He has taught at the ETH Zurich, the London School of Architecture, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio.
