Here is our selection of best summer stories.
- Who knows why Le Corbusier is so targeted by critics and iconoclasts... From Tom Sachs’ exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale to the digital collages by Xavier Delory, the work of the Modern Architecture master are recently criticised, deconstructed, and vandalised. Here “Flooded Modernity”, an installation by Danish artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, represents the shipwreck of Modernity and Enlightenment.
- Life on Mars is no longer just a song by David Bowie, but a reality conceived. What characteristics must houses have on Mars? It must be vertical, because in this way it is possible to recreate and maintain an atmosphere similar to that of the Earth. Spacefactory proposes "Marsha" as a house on Mars, awarded by NASA with about 20 thousand dollars. The house is made to self-generate with local resources through 3D prints. Here the article.
- Architecture in the words of Steven Holl. Domus was Porto Academy media partnership and made a series of interviews, including the first one by Steven Holl. What are the tools, both conceptual and practical, that give rise to his buildings? Between anecdotes, buildings and books, the architect frames the imagery of his creative process. Here the video interview.
- Bombay Beach Biennale, Slab City and the Sonoran Desert. A place in California mixes a toxic lake, a self-managed community, an independent art festival and Hollywood. Four ingredients that are injecting life back into it. Read our report.
-From Biennale Architettura. Marina Otero Verzier, Chief Curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 with After Belonging Agency, is now Research Department Director at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and Curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2018. Her project, named “Work, Body, Leisure”, brings together multi-faceted voices and gives a major contribution to the debate on the architecture responsibility about the new technologies of work automation – and not just that. Here is the interview.
- Gio Ponti's visionary car. Judged too radical for the time – in 1953 – its ideas would prove fundamental to future cars. Now, 65 years after it was designed, Linea Diamante will be presented on 6 September 2018 at Basel in a full-size model. Here the article.
-From the archive. Interview with Cody R. Wilson, the designer of the first 3d printed pistol. In the United States, a judge has stopped the online publication of a printable 3D gun’s blueprints. From Domus archives we republish the interview with the political activist who invented it.
- The new Apple store in Milan is a tribute to Italy. Lombardy stone, an amphitheatre with terraces and fountains. More than just a point of sale, the new Apple Store by Foster + Partners is a scenographic celebrates Italy. Read here.
- Rome. A house among trees open to nature. A renovation that connects interior spaces and opens them towards the park, giving an illusion of continuity with the surroundings.
Here the article.
