We remember the great architectural historian and theorist, who left us aged 94, through his late-millennium essay, dedicated to Domus as a crucial viewpoint onItalian and international cultural history.
As the Paris Games draw closer, we go back through the Domus archive to the 1984 Olympics, which turned the California city into a postmodern firework in search of levity and community spirit.
Eclectic, collector, interpreter, thinker and designer, Italo Rota – who left us aged 70 – has sailed the contemporary by building connections between inner different worlds, objects and architectures as clothes and cities: an interface philosophy he shared with Domus in 2017.
In April 1964, near Florence, a milestone for Italian architecture. Gio Ponti published it on Domus, along with the words he had dedicated to the designer, Giovanni Michelucci.
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
From the house that Wittgenstein built for his sister to those of today, a global journey through nearly a century of Domus archives in search of the homes that made history.
In 1985, the great American master of minimalism and land art, who left us on March 26, met the legendary editor and director of Domus: an exchange as unconventional as its protagonists, against all ideas of category and monument
In 1986 a major exhibition in Milan was dedicated to Bruno Munari, the Italian father of good design; on that occasion his son Alberto, a psychologist, took over our pages to “question” his father about childhood, art, creativity, and life.
The great car designer has passed away. We remember him with his famed interview with Domus: on that occasion he taleked about some of the most famous models he designed, starting with the legendary Lamborghini Countach.
Since 1983 Domus followed the story of a tower that, mixing historicisms, monumental traits, styles and references, from Louisville, Kentucky expressed all the tropes of American and international postmodern architecture.
