“Not retaining the seeds of the flowers you obtained at various times in your life is like holding the flower of a branch you have broken off from the tree. But if you do keep the seeds, will the flower not remain as the years and seasons progress? I must repeat: do not forget the mind you had in the beginning.” Zeami, The Spirit of Noh. A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden, translated by William Scott Wilson. Shambhala, Boulder, CO, USA 2013 (quotation translated into Italian by Domus).

The new museum housing the largest collection of works by Edvard Munch dominates the skyline from a narrow strip of land jutting into the fjord. 

The library fuses into the former docklands thanks to the transparency of its ground floor and the large, amorphous canon-lumière articulated within the building. 

The palaeontological site will be given new cohesion with a museum extension and a path that will connect the artefacts, fossils and existing historical features. 

With a free sculptural form, the addition to the museum creates highly flexible internal and external spaces with a marked public role. 

By recovering and expanding a historic department store from the 1930s, the project creates a dynamic space for recounting the art of cinema. 

By choosing to work with perishable materials that lack any character of immortality, Fischer and Schwitters reveal the passing of time and remind us that both nature and art are involved in a continual process of construction and deconstruction. 

This segment was established as a way of showcasing the diversity of thought that can emerge around a single idea. Each month an array of artists and designers who shape objects, spaces and buildings is given the freedom to express themselves visually on the theme we explore in each issue. To illustrate a cross-generational, crossdisciplinary view of the design world, each time we host ten creators. It is up to the chosen creators to visualise freely each of these abstract ideas in the form of images, collages, drawings, sketches and texts. Their design processes will begin with disparate influences and inspirations. By capturing these ephemeral ideas before they manifest themselves and solidify, we can better discern the roots of creation. Domus is a magazine that does not just feature architecture but also products, art, furniture and fashion. Our hope is that these diverse collections of images will capture the very spirit of Domus.

The only museum among Frank Lloyd Wright’s more than 500 completed works, the Guggenheim took over 16 years to build: amid uncertainties, battles and continuous changes, even the colour and shape of its outer shell changed several times. 

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza has required ten years of work and a monumental retaining wall to hold up the slope in which the complex is embedded. 

How can we create a feeling of belonging and integrate with our surroundings by designing a school? Four architects discuss possible current design approaches intended for teaching. Approaches that are drastically different around the world. 

Gio Ponti. Life and works 1923-1979. Publisher Taschen

Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis’s house on the eastern outskirts of Lisbon combines exhibition gallery, atelier and home. His collection of jazz CDs is in the library and the living room has an array of ceramic animals. 

Striatus Bridge, designed by Block Research Group at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group, with incremental3D, made possible by Holcim. 

Air Bubble operates on solar energy and as kids play. The ETFE membrane controls the interior microclimate; the upside-down conical membrane stimulates natural ventilation. 

Draft, terracotta conductor used to cool the air in a room.

Carlino in the Zanotta re-edition. Supported by a single pointy leg, the cabinet has a drawer that slides internally on a wooden guide. 

Commissioned by Anthony Vaccarello for his latest fashion show, the physical and conceptual installation created by Doug Aitken in Venice becomes a kaleidoscope to discuss the future.