Minimalism in the Kitchen

摘要

Every architect knows Louis Sullivan's famous maxim, form (ever) follows function, a guiding tenet of the modern aesthetic. Sullivan's idea that the purpose of a structure should be the starting point for its design has produced minimalism, which seeks to eliminate all non-essential forms, features, and concepts-no easy feat to accomplish. Noted architect John Pawson maintains that minimalism is not merely a case of "throwing out the sofa and painting the walls white." "This is not architecture of absence: It is defined not by what is not there, but rather by the right-ness of what is," Pawson writes.