En oligis

With a doctoral thesis in abstract painting and a fertile grounding in the dense and succinct language of poetry, the architect Yannis Ch. Papaioannou presents us with a playful series of exercises in abstract thinking in his new book In Brief. His observations on the fleeting nature of human existence and the eternal character of existentialist enquiry are a precious distillation of a lifetime's experience, expressed with rigorous brevity and witty sharpness.