Seven Italian case studies reveal how every era has attempted to construct its own idea of perfection, from Renaissance geometry to company towns and new towns to the residential utopias of the late twentieth century.
Designed by Albera Monti Architetti, Fisherman's House sits on the slopes overlooking Lake Maggiore, opening up to sweeping views while blending modernist references, local architecture and pop-inspired interiors.
Nestled among the rolling hills of Italy’s Marche region, far from the country’s major logistics corridors, Franke Home Solutions’ manufacturing plant is experimenting with a production model where technology, safety and employee wellbeing are all part of the same architectural vision.
With a new project by StorageMilano for the outdoor spaces and the Mistral restaurant, Villa Serbelloni is entering a new chapter. Domus met with the designers and hotel director Jan Bucher to explore the transformation.
The project, designed by Rafael Moneo and Isolarchitetti, will see Pier Luigi Nervi’s Padiglione Agnelli at Torino Esposizioni transformed into the new Biblioteca Civica Centrale, restoring a public function to this 20th century masterpiece.
As part of the O14 project, the Spanish studio reinterprets the building, changing its intended use and revealing its architectural features.
Brescia’s new Main and Children’s Hospital joins a growing generation of healthcare projects that are reshaping hospitals as more than places of treatment: civic campuses, inhabitable landscapes and symbolic architectures for the contemporary city.
The project by Francesco Lipari, Lillo Giglia, and Giuseppe Conti transforms a peripheral area of Licata into a new civic landmark through sculptural forms, diffused natural light, and echoes of Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier.
Before becoming the stage for the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, MetLife Stadium was the outcome of an unrealized project: building a stadium in the heart of Manhattan, above the rail yards on the West Side, where Hudson Yards — New York's so-called "billionaires' city" — now stands.
In the first edition of Terraforma Radical School, fifteen participants lived at Villa Arconati for four days, moving between field recording, landscape, and sound. An experiment to understand if a garden, a labyrinth, or even silence can become sound architecture.
MOMA’s Architects of Liberation traces how architecture became a tool of self-determination, nation-building and cultural reinvention across Western Africa’s independence era.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Designed by Jorgelina Tortorici & Asociados, the house is organised around patios and a garden. An ingenious system of vertical screens alternates between providing openness and privacy.
From the homes of artists, architects and great collectors to apartments left almost intact, eleven Italian house museums where works, furnishings and architecture still tell the story of the way of life of those who inhabited them.
