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Quick Studies: Books for Short Attention Spans 2021

By Liza Monroy | Jan 22, 2021 50 Things to Do at the Beach Easkey Britton, illus. by Maria Nilsson. Princeton Architectural Press, May. Big-wave surfer Britton, who has a PhD in environment and society, offers a concise, illustrated primer based on years of research and activism: she rides a surfboard made from cigarette butts to raise awareness about environmental conservation, and is the first woman known to have surfed Iran’s Baluchistan Coast. See our q&a with Easkey, “Reading the Sea.”  The Three-Minute Philosopher Midal, whose books include  The French Art of Not Giving a Sh t, is a philosopher who lectures frequently on meditation and mindfulness. Here, he distills inspiration from 40 writers and thinkers including James Baldwin, Charles Baudelaire, and Simone de Beauvoir. Each essay can be read in three minutes, serving up deep thoughts on a fast-food timeline.

Adolf Loos, the enigmatic Moravian-born architect, at 150

Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Loos, a pioneering modernist architect raised in Brno, who left a rich legacy also in Vienna, Prague and beyond. He is perhaps best known for the radical philosophy that “ornament is crime”  and multidimensional design of interior spaces, which Loos called simply the ‘Raumplan” . Adolf Loos, photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Adolf Loos was born in 1870 into a German-speaking family in the Moravian capital of what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He spent most of his adult life in Vienna, frequenting its grand coffee houses and cabarets when not in his atelier.

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