MINIMUM

his book is an attempt to crystallize some thoughts about the notion of simplicity as it can be applied to architecture and art. And beyond that, to discuss simplicity as a way of life, to look at simplicity as a means for ordering and defining the everyday rituals and necessities of existence. It is an attempt to examine the idea of the "minimum", which can be seen as the pursuit of simplicity, as a way of thinking; exploring the possibilities that it offers for working creatively. The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. It is the result of the omission of the inessentials.