Paru le 20/03/2014 | Relié sous jaquette 271 pages
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Pure shapes, simple lines, clear geometry - minimalism focuses on the necessities. It places emphasis on a plain and obvious message rather than on superfluous details.
A steel wave suggests movement and rapidity, plain glass introduces transparency, large openings are sources of space and light - refinement has become the new means of expression. Each single detail becomes significant and a key element of the project.
Shape, material and consistency exclusively at the service of function - the result can be admired in 57 extremely innovative and honest contemporary buildings, which reveal minimalism as an attitude aiming at abstraction, functionalism and purification.
Chris van Uffelen was born in 1966. The graduate art historian and freelance author focuses on medieval architecture, classical modernism and contemporary art of building. Magazine articles and several books on this topics as well as numerous contributions in encyclopedias on the entire history of art and architecture bear his name.
