Minimal architecture
By: Ilka & Andreas Ruby ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ruby, Ilka.
Series: Architecture in focus
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Minimal architecture
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173).