Integrity and Commitment
The art world has turned into one of the most ruthless territories of contemporary turbo-capitalism. But something is changing.
Domus Paper. Super interiors, landscapes, cities
On newsstands with Domus’ October issue, DomusPaper talks about the evolution of cities through stories on different scales: interiors, landscapes, cities.
What is – or what should be – the heart and soul of a library today?
The invasion of digital technology in many compartments of our life has generated a re-evaluation of the way we use this type of public building, as well as new formulas for the collective sharing of knowledge. All need verification.
Running through green dressed in red (with a touch of blue) in the Russian capital
Emerging from the rational Soviet framework of 18th-century Moscow are new policies and architectural initiatives aimed at giving the city a human (or perhaps post-human) scale.
Designs for emergencies. Maidan tent, an inflatable cloud in a refugee camp
Ideated by the young Milanese office ABVM with Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner and built with help from the International Organisation for Migration, Maidan Tent fills a design-related void.
Antonio Marras: aspiring minimalist, serial accumulator
Marras the couturier opens to Domus the doors of his Sardinian hideaway, a solid concentrate of his way of being and designing.
Robin Hood Gardens is a lesson for future cities
At the Venice Biennale, the V&A is exhibiting a fragment of the social housing complex completed in 1972 and designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, which is now being demolished.
A Milanese masterpiece by Franco Albini
In 1939, in Domus issue 144, Gio Ponti published Villa Pestarini. The rationalist house built 80 years ago has since been enjoyed by 5 generations, making it more alive and modern than ever.
Michel Desvigne. Landscape comes before everything else, even architecture
The French landscape designer defends the priority of landscape architecture as a basis for an enlightened city, citing the big American parks built in the late 19th century.
Domus Paper. Super interiors, landscapes, cities
On newsstands with Domus’ October issue, DomusPaper talks about the evolution of cities through stories on different scales: interiors, landscapes, cities.