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"What does the rigorously minimalist English architect John Pawson gaze upon for inspiration? Agnes Martin paintings? Algebraic equations? Immaculate sheets of white paper? Nothing so obvious, is the message of his fascinating new volume, A Visual Inventory (Phaidon, $50), in which Pawson presents 272 of his own snapshots of landscapes, buildings, and objects that have caught his roving eye. Here is evidence of a man drawn to the riotous and the unkempt: construction sites bristling with rebar, weeds clinging to the waterline on the Swedish coast, a chockablock Dumpster laced with snow. In succinct captionlike text, Pawson describes hidden patterns and intriguing accidents of color and light. Well-known buildings make cameos (the above spread features an interior from Oscar Niemeyer's Casa das Canoas, left, opposite a detail from the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre), but Pawson frames their design elements in a way that makes each structure seem new. As personal as it is visually arresting, this is a work of thoughtful scrutiny from one of architecture's living legends."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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