In Brief: RIP Balthazar Korab, Copycat Construction, Elbaz Maquillage, Ballet Buzz

• Architect turned photographer Balthazar Korab has died at the age of 86.

• Elsewhere in legendary architectural photographer news…be sure to pick up a copy of Ezra Stoller, Photographer, new from Yale University Press. The book’s co-authors, Erica Stoller and Akiko Busch, will discuss the man, the myth, the photos on Wednesday evening at the New York School of Interior Design. Purchase tickets here.

• EPCOT-style ersatz architecture is all the rage in China, but to what ends? Edwin Heathcote considers copycat construction as in his Financial Times review of Bianca Bosker‘s Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (University of Hawaii Press).

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