Books, Articles and Publications on Minimalist Architecture

If you want to know more about minimalism, Wikipedia is of course a good place to start. For those who want to learm even more, I’ve started collecting publications from around the web.

Note: I do not necessarily support the contents and insights expressed in these documents.

Books

• Minimum – John Pawson
• Aspects of Minimalist Architecture – Multiple authors
  Contributors to this volume include Tadao Ando, Herzog and De Meuron, Campo Baeza, Barto and Barto, Unger and Kinslow, Tina Engelen and John Pawson. You can download the first three chapters here.

Discussions

• Thread ‘Minimalism in architecture’ – Multiple contributors
  Interesting thread at the architecture and design forum of Pushpullbar of architecture enthusiasts discussing the nature of minimalist architecture

Academic / research papers

• The “art of building” (Baukunst) of Mies van der Rohe – Ransoo Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Kim analyses the nature and work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in great detail (PDF opens automatically).

Index

• Understanding Minimalism
• Introduction to Minimal Art
• Introduction to Minimalist Design
• The Difference between Minimal Art and Minimalist Design
• The Difference between Minimalism and Simplicity (In One Image)
• Minimalism’s unique, defining quality
• Minimalism is for minimalists
• Bookmarklets for the Online Minimalist
• Portrait: Minimalist Photographer Hans Hiltermann
• The Most Minimalist: Typeface
• Minimalism Is Not Reductivist
• Minimalism Is…

References

• A List of All Famous Minimalist Artists, Architects and Designers
• Blogs on Minimalism
• Books, Articles and Publications on Minimal Art
• Books, Articles and Publications on Minimalist Architecture
• Books, Articles and Publications on Minimalist Music
• Books, Articles and Publications on Minimalism as a Concept

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