Minimalism DesignSource

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Minimalism DesignSource
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Encarna Castillo
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:648
Dimensions(mm): Height 184,Width 133
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Minimalism
Architecture
ISBN/Barcode 9780060747985
ClassificationsDewey:724.6
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint Harper Design
Publication Date 7 October 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

The term Minimalism has not always been used in a favorable sense, especially in architecture, and even today it may be the cause of some confusion and ambiguity. The problem comes from the word's use in defining a creative current, school or trend when in fact it refers to an aesthetic. At the same time, this aesthetic is not chronologically well defined either and, moreover, interacts with different disciplines. This explains why we find minimalist buildings in periods very far apart from each other and in architects as different as Tadao Ando, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron or Luis Barragan, among others. Minimalism DesignSource investigates the minimalism movement, covering the last years of the decade of the 1990s and the first years of the twenty-first century to inquires into the origins of the term minimalism and in how the minimalism phenomenon played out in other fields like art, painting, fashion, and sculpture has affected minimalism in architecture, define the result of the use of pure and simple lines, the reduction of language elements and, as far as architecture is concerned, the investigation of the treatment of space and of building possibilities.

Author Biography

Encarna Castillo has contributed to several books on interior design including "MXM: Maximalist Interiors".