Modern minimalism builds on the art, design, and architecture movements of the 20th century, celebrating the freedom and raw, immediate emotions to be found in stark simplicity. Reduced to the bare essentials, minimalist design uses elementary geometric forms, a lack of decoration, a focus on functionality, and wide open spaces to craft a dramatic visual impact. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s unquestionably the defining aesthetic of our era ? and it?s only continuing to evolve along with our collective tastes.

It?s not hard to see why minimalist design is so often monochromatic. Not only do all-white spaces express the sense of visual ?purity? upon which the style is based, but they also call to mind the technology and materials of the space age. But after decades of adhering to modernist principles valuing the look of a nearly blank canvas, aren’t we getting a little bored" Some architects and interior designers are starting to infuse otherwise minimalist spaces, which can read as sterile, with unexpected splashes of color and ornamentation.
In a fun new residential project in Mexico City, architect Miguel �ngel Aragones transforms a complex of three houses and a studio set in a wooded area called Bosques de las Lomas. By day, Rombo IV (just one of the four buildings) is a modernist delight. It?s full of dynamic shapes and voids expressed through spherical sculptures, reflective black pools, mirrored floors, textured white surfaces...