Minimum

John Pawson is one of my favorite architects, and this book perfectly highlights and demonstrates his minimalist approach. Light on text, heavy on beautiful photos. It's also gorgeously bound with a simple but rich cloth cover with beautiful type. It even came shrink-wrapped to ensure that it wasn't damaged during shipping. Everything about it is perfect.For such an inexpensive book, I couldn't have been more surprised. I can't recommend this highly enough.

Pawsons vision of simplicity is refreshing and inspiring. This book - a collection of thoughts and images that inspire him - illustrate that minimalism doesnt have to be stark or severe. His thoughts on form and material are incisively illustrated through the photographs.My only warning would be that this is not a manual for simple living as much as it is a treatise. And, for a book on minimalism it's a little big.

ANYTHING by phaidon u can get without opening and checking the book. they are the best publishers out there. trust them blindly.. this book is great. great design, it lets out a good vibe. helps get your lifestyle right...

I liked the idea of this book, but the execution seems pretty forced. Bunches of photos -- many of which are not particularly interesting -- that presumably illustrate minimum design. But it all seems a bit random and incoherent to me. Pawson may be a fine architect, but I don't think any clear understanding of minimum design is advanced here.

Was very disappointed with this book. John Pawson is one of my favorite architects, and I was looking forward to a book put together by him of his inspirations. The cover is very nice, it goes downhill from there. It's mostly bad photos of obvious references. It felt haphazardly put together by an intern. I paged through it twice and then put it in the stack of books for the library book sale.

This book is interesting. The book reveals what constitutes Pawson's thinking. Thru the graphic representations of photographic art, sculpture, ancient buildings, paintings, places, details, gardens, and ruins; Pawson powerfully visualizes his stance. At each image Pawson carefully crafts little notes to explain why he likes that particular image. A reader will easily grasp that Pawson's journey towards the absolute essentials was not created thru either erasing lines in drawings or reading some philosophical statements. But thru the years of his own site visits and foot work. Sometimes I felt flattered that some of my favorites were chosen as his favorites; othertimes, I found places and artists that I've never heard. I was able to rely on his notes because of his comments on my favorites. Only a person who has visited multiple times to his likings can write such succinct and insightful comments. Due to the intensity of the content and the nature of words, this book could also function like a daily meditation book. By that I mean, you can read it in two hours or you can read an image per day and extend the duration to two years. In a digitally mediated age, clapping hands to the loud voices/ moving fast/ diversity of thoughts, Pawson's book deliberately shuts mouth/ stand still/ seek simple equilibrium.

This Phaidon book is massive in size & it's heavy too. I find it less satisfying to read than John Pawson Works written by Deyan Sudjic but nevertheless, since that Minimum is compiled by the superarchitect himself, we are provided with an insight of different things, which inspired him at his works. This book is dominated by visuals, & some of the pictures were taken by Ezra Stoller (& there's a book specifically dedicated to this great photographer emphasising upon modernist works). Perhaps, a picture tells a million stories but the preface by John Pawson himself is the most effective piece in the whole book. Perhaps, it's fair to comment that the usage of minimalism in architecture has become a cliche now because John Pawson is frustrated that the word is used for the sake of been used when architecture should be dwelved deeper which he has done & endeavouring to continue doing so. Perhaps, not the best featured book about or by the superarchitect but still, it's a book that shouldn't be missed. Recommended.

For anyone interested in what space (not outer-space, but the space we live in) could look like if we'd but show the courage to get rid of trinkets, bric-a-brac, and other clutter, this is the perfect book. And for those who already embrace the simplicity of minimalism, this is a wonderful picture book of great minimalist spaces, and other flowing, graceful geometries. It is not a textbook or text-based lesson on minimalism, but instead a visual guide - nearly every page is a picture of a minimalist scene. The photography and the reproduction are done amazingly well, and the subjects chosen are varied and represent many forms of minimalist thinking/viewing. It's printed on great quality paper with a nice binding and cover. But, I can give it only 4 stars because, as other reviewer mentioned, Pawson adds lots of unnecessary (and unhelpful and inappropriately leading) captioning. The book is a slick little well-made art-piece itself, too.

ジョン・ポーソンのミニマムは、このコンパクト版の方が、モノとしての魅力（カワイイ）があって良いと思う。

この本は、著者John Pawsonの脳内構造を垣間見ることができる。決して彼の自伝本なんかではないのだが、いかにして「ミニマリスト」になっていったのかその原風景を見ることができるようである。

I have never ordered this