Styles in interior design
lighting, and careful consideration of the void spaces left by the removal of three-dimensional
shapes from an architectural design. The more attractive looking minimalist home designs are
not truly minimalist, because these use more expensive building materials and finishes, and are
relatively larger.
Contemporary architects working in this tradition include John Pawson, Eduardo Souto de
Moura, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Tadao Ando, Alberto Campo Baeza, Yoshio Taniguchi, Peter
Zumthor, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Vincent Van Duysen, Claudio Silvestrin, Michael Gabellini,
and Richard Gluckman.
Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting
standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to
be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his