The pool of Villa Além, Valerio Olgiati’s home in Alentejo, Portugal, is filled to the level of the water table and reflects the topography of the surrounding land.

‘I don’t want to be a servant to the public,’ said Valerio Olgiati to a packed-out lecture hall at the RIBA. Olgiati – three-times winner of the Best Building in Switzerland award and professor at the ...

According to court documents, Breitschmid and Olgiati first discussed building a house together in 2013 and 2017.On May 2, 2020, Breitschmid e-mailed Olgiati stating he “had a $400,000 budget ...

In Portugal’s Alentejo region, Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has designed a massive, avant-garde concrete structure—a personal retreat that gestures to the heavens.