An edition of Minimal architecture (2003)
Minimal Architecture
From Contemporary International Style to New Strategies (Architecture in Focus)
By Ilka Ruby,Andreas Ruby,Angeli Sachs,Philip Ursprung
Publish Date
June 2003
Publisher
Prestel Publishing
Language
eng
Pages
175
Description:
"What is minimalism? Or, more specifically, what isn't? In this fascinating aesthetic voyage, three experts in the field of architecture and art history trace the development of minimalism as a style and offer perspectives on the directions the movement is taking as it morphs towards the future. In double-page spreads filled with color photographs of the most innovative minimalist projects, this book illustrates three principal movements: the traditional, as practiced by Herzog & de Meuron in early works, Adolf Krischanitz and Tadao Ando; the ambiguous, in which architects not commonly associated with minimalism, such as OMA or Zaha Hadid, use it for specific projects; and the subversive, which appropriates minimalist concepts across a variety of new fields as exemplified in the architecture of Shigeru Ban or Lacaton & Vassal."--Jacket.