Rudolf Olgiati worked as an architect, first in Zürich and starting in 1944 in Flims, where he had purchased a house back in 1930 and then proceeded to renovate it making it the family home.
[1] His son Valerio Olgiati is also active as an architect and lives in Flims in his father's house.
Rudolf Olgiati was a representative of the New Objectivity movement and one of the first architects in the mid-1950s to discover the importance and effectiveness of historical design principles for the architecture of modernity.
[2][3] [4] Olgiati's cubical use of forms moved between the priorities of Grison's local architectural tradition, the ancient Greek style, and modernism mainly oriented on Le Corbusier.
Olgiati's work has been exhibited in 1977 at ETH Zürich, in 1986 at the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, in 1986 at Technische Universität Berlin, and in 1988 at the Art University Linz, Austria.