This extraordinary visual essay explores the notion of minimum a conceptwhich is rooted in the pursuit of simplicity as applied to architecture artand design it... » 

This extraordinary visual essay explores the notion of minimum a conceptwhich is rooted in the pursuit of simplicity as applied to architecture artand design it is the quality that a building or object possesses when everycomponent every detail and every junction has been reduced or condensed to itsessentials. Now itself condensed Minimum is available for the first time as apocket edition.This book designed and compiled by the minimalist architectJohn Pawson captures the essential qualities of particular kinds ofsimplicity. This is illustrated by architecture ranging from prehistoricMexico and Ancient Egypt to the high Modernism of Le Corbusier and Mies van derRohe art from the Dutch School to Donald Judd the photography of RobertMapplethorpe and Bill Brandt and furniture and pottery. With its broad spreadacross time and a wide geographical area Minimum seeks to analyse the elementsof simplicity and capture them in print. «