Includes index

Squish Studio / Saunders Architecture -- Liyuan Library / Li Xiaodong Atelier -- Porsche Pavilion / Henn -- City green court / Richard Meier & Partners Architects -- Outdoor food court / jaf:: architecture + design -- Pinc Pavilion / Clinica de Arquitectura -- Administration building with auditorium / Architekten BKSP Grabau Leiber Obermann und Partner -- Extension World Trade Organization (WTO) / Wittfoht Architekten -- Marseille Vieux Port / Foster + Partners -- Intras Center for the Mentally Disabled / Amas4arquitectura -- Mosquito Coast Factory / Tolila+Gillilland Atelier d'Architecture -- Gate of stone, gate of wind / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates -- Nobu Malibu / Montalba Architects -- Chapel in the woods Paolo Zermani, Eugenio Tessoni -- 150-meter weekend house / Shinichi Ogawa & Associates -- C2 3 Pharmacy research building / Simon Freie Architekten -- Mandinat al Zahra Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos -- House in Hakusan / Fujiwara-Muro architects -- Skybox house / Primus architects, David Bülow-Jacobsen and Per Appel -- House on the corner / Keizo Matsuda Architect with Masatoshi Fujimoto -- Beauty salon / Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects -- Minimalist house / Shinichi Ogawa & Associates -- XiXi Artists' Club House / AZL Architects -- House-T / Michiya Tsukano, Tsukano Architect Office -- House G / Brandl Architekten -- House K / Titus Bernhard Architekten -- Pool house / Baumhauer -- Stripe house / GAAGA studio for architecture -- Jessie Chen residence / Rios Clementi Hale Studios -- Jaax apartments / Atelier d'Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck, Pierre de Wit -- New Forum Eckenberg High School / Ecker Architekten -- Infinite landscape / Ryo Yamada -- House in Nada / Fujiwara-Muro architects -- The Beaumont House / Henri Cleinge -- House 11x11 / Titus Bernhard Architekten -- Scarborough Child and Family Life Centre / LGA Architectural Partners -- St. Martin's Church Community Center / KM Architekten -- The Sackler Building / Haworth Tompkins -- A glass box for viewing th orchard / Branch Studio Architects -- Weinkulturgut Longen-Schlöder / Matteo Thun & Partners -- Windsurfer house / Javier Peña Galiano -- Glass competence center / becker architekten -- Seminar building Gut Siggen / Auer+Weber+Assoziierte -- Middle school in Vouvry / Berrel Berrel Kräutler -- Convention center / Stéphane Bigoni + Antoine Mortemard -- Flederhaus / heri & salli -- TOR149 / GRAFT: Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH -- Ferrum house / Mark Merer -- Atresados / Javier Peña Galiano -- Rhine Falls visitor center / Leuppi & Schafroth Architekten -- Alter Hof Lorenzistock / Peter Kulka Architektur -- Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates -- Townhouse Oberwall / apool, Dominik Franz, Jesper Reinholt -- The Velvet State / Shjworks -- Bridge studio / Saunders Architecture -- Echoviren Pavilion / Smith, Allen -- The island house / 2by4-architects

"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 these extremely innovative and honest contemporary buildings, which reveal minimalism as an attitude aiming at abstraction, functionalism and purification"--Provided by publisher