Eye Claudio

Description

Claudio Silvestrin is widely credited as being the master of minimalism. His designs represent work of enduring quality for which there is a growing international appreciation. He has worked with artists (including Anish Kapoor), constructing outstanding exhibition designs. He has worked with fashion designers (Calvin Klein and Armani), creating retail stores of sophisticated simplicity. The spatial clarity of his designs and his sensitivity to the effects of light and colour are apparent in his commissions for private homes (for example, the Schraeger apartment, New York), public spaces (including the White Cube Gallery, London) and his retail environments. In this book, which embraces his work from 1988 to 2001, Silvestrin traces each step in the evolution of a project. The book is divided into three parts - image, void and text. Part one features images only, which are ordered thematically according to the elements: wood, earth, air, water, light and geometry. Part two comprises the void, a cube-shaped die-cut at the heart of the book, devoid of either words or pictures. Part three contains the text, which ranges over subjects such as energy, proportion, practicality, dreams and coincidences, instinct versus thinking. Here Silvestrin explores the creative process from conception to completion, distilling his personal philosophy from these projects. The book presents the humanity of an architect and his work - a fascinating "work in progress" rather than a conventional history.