num_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 the traditional, as practiced by Herzog &amp; 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 &amp; Vassal.
language: English
title: Minimal Architecture: From Contemporary International Style to New Strategies
titlecomplete: Minimal Architecture: From Contemporary International Style to New Strategies (Architecture in Focus)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Prestel Pub