Markus Breitschmid Invited to Present at 13th Colloquium on Architectural Theory

Architecture Professor Markus Breitschmid was invited to present at the 13^th Colloquium on Architectural Theory held at the Foundation Library Werner Oechslin in Einsiedeln, Switzerland on April 24 to 27, 2025. The colloquium brought together leading architecture theoreticians to discuss the colloquium’s research focus on “Dialogues in Architecture Theory” and “Curvature in Antiquity.”

Theoreticians such as Matthias Schirren and Markus Breitschmid were joined by architects such as Santiago Calatrava and archeologists such as Manolis Korres. Participating invited guests arrived from Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States. The event was supported by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, the Swiss Academy of Human Sciences, the Confederation of Switzerland, the Canton of Schwyz, and organized by Prof. Dr. Jasper Cepl, Dr. Anja Buschow, and Prof. Dr. Werner Oechslin. Markus Breitschmid’s presentation was titled “Fictional Dialogues: Toward a Non-Referential Architecture.” It focused on the instrumentalization of fictional dialogues to transfer the aesthetic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche toward the treatise of Non-Referential Architecture that deals with the positioning of architecture today. 

The entire body of writings of Friedrich Nietzsche has been declared a World Heritage Document by the UNESCO, the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in March 2025.