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* Sila beri jawapan 14 hari dari tarikh surat ini.

"Alamak, hari ni dah 16 hb, dah terlewat la", getus saya dalam hati. Pagi ini saya baru tersedar, surat yang telah saya terima hampir 3 minggu lalu perlu dijawab segera. Dan tarikh jawapan sudah melebihi daripada waktu yang ditetapkan. Saya menyalahkan diri sendiri berkali-kali kerana tidak mempedulikan surat itu sebaik saya menerimanya. Hanya MOH yang tidak jemu-jemu mengingatkan saya tentang itu. Saya mencapai telefon bimbit dan mendail nombor yang dikehendaki. " Bolehkah saya fakskan sahaja borang ini," tanya saya. Wanita di hujung talian berkata boleh lantas memberi nombor faks yang harus dihubungi. Saya fikir, jika ada rezeki saya, mereka masih akan menerima saya. Jika tidak, pasti ada hikmahnya.

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Di suatu petang nan damai, sedang sembang-sembang bertukar cerita:

A: Apa pendapat awak tentang blog akak?

T: Nampak macam tak telus - macam tak ada bekas dan bentuk, macam tak jadi diri sendiri... Tapi lama-lama boleh dibawa berbincang rupanya.

A: :) (tapi dia tahu saya tersengih dengar jawapan itu).

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Minimalism: A design or style using the simplest and fewest elements to create the maximum effect. (Collins Compact Dictionary)

Minimalist design

The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work De Stijl artists is a big source of reference this kind of work. De Stijl expanded the ideas that could be expressed by using basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very particular manners.

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto "Less is more" to describe his aesthetic tactics of flattening and emphasizing the building's frame, eliminating interior walls and adopting an open plan, and reducing the structure to a strong, transparent, elegant skin. Designer Buckminster Fuller adopted a similar saying, "Doing more with less", but his concerns were oriented towards technology and engineering rather than aesthetics. The other modern master people still observe to study reductivist ideas is Luis Barragan. In minimalism, the architectural designers pay special attention to the connection between perfect planes, elegant lighting, and careful consideration of the void spaces left over after the removal of three dimensional shapes from an architectural design.

Contemporary architects working in this tradition include John Pawson, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Alberto Campo Baeza,Yoshio Taniguchi, Peter Zumthor, Vincent Van Duysen, Claudio Silvestrin, Michael Gabellini, and Richard Gluckman.[2]

Kredit untuk Wikipedia.