"Monks and Monkeys" tries to understand how at a certain point Minimalist architecture won out and became mainstream, and how the sad rhetoric of Minimal Art turned into the grimly asocial monumentality of Minimalist architecture. It also explores how Minimalist architecture turned the stupidity of Minimal Art into a slick, perverted religion.
Fifty-two Blank Pages: Noir Fiction by Edward Ruscha
William Watson
Spaces for People Who Are Not Your Friends
Freek Persyn
Francesco Lo Savio: Things that Architects Can Learn from a Forerunner of Minimal Art
Andrea Balestrero
Die Hütte
Sophie Nys
Estrangement: The Blue House
Beth Hughes
Some Thoughts on Visiting the Stone House at Tavole
Lorenzo De Chiffre
Below the Minimal Surface of Muji
Solomon Christian Dimmer and Erez Golani
An Island of Catholic Monks: Chile’s Utopia in the 1990s
Francisco Díaz
Less than Mies
Marco Biraghi
Sculpture into Architecture
Michael Abrahamson
Stirling’s Minimalism
Kersten Geers
A Partial List
Fabrizio Gallanti
Some Scale Models We’d Like to Know
Erin Besler and Ian Besler
Hyperminimalism: Architecture of the Open Frame
Benedict Clouette and Marlisa Wise
Sottsass’s Grey Furniture
2A+P/A
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Minimalism
Filippo Cattapan
Rustling Jimmies since Day One
Daniel Tudor Munteanu
The Birth of Minimalism From the Spirit of Theo van Doesburg
Valter Scelsi
Bad Lieutenant: Álvaro Siza at Novartis Campus
Diego Seixas Lopes
Everything Only Happens Once
Simon Walker
Sol, Jon and Costantino; Or, the Elegy of the Frame
Andrea Zanderigo