Farewell to Frank O. Gehry (1929–2025)
We remember the Canadian architect through 60 years of Domus archives: a multifaceted figure who challenged technique to assert how architecture is (also) a work of art.
When Ugo La Pietra imagined the Telematic House
Since the early 70s, the most eclectic figure of Italian Radical Design worked on the idea of a home capable of expanding perception. By 1983, he presented furnishings for a house traversed by information, screen-armchairs for a television-driven society.
Remembering San Siro: the Domus stadium party many still talk about
Among Jodorowsky’s tarot readings, picnics with Enzo Mari, and Yona Friedman’s polystyrene cities, during Fuorisalone 2005 Domus opened the legendary stadium to the city for one night, transforming it into a Fun Palace at the heart of Milan.
Within days, Britain lost two masters of architecture
The United Kingdom mourns Nicholas Grimshaw (1939–2025) and Terry Farrell (1938–2025). Early in their careers they worked in partnership, with projects poised between technology and landscape: Domus recounted this story through three industrial buildings along the Thames.
Gaetano Pesce (1939 - 2024)
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
Pratone, disco clubs and more: the radical genius of Pietro Derossi (1933–2025)
The Turin-based architect and designer created some of the cornerstones of contemporary Italian culture, from the Pratone for Gufram to the 2006 Winter Olympics housing and helped shape our early radical cultural clubs like Piper and Altro Mondo. Domus visited them in 1968.
Giorgio Armani, the architect of prêt-à-porter
In 1988, Domus explored Armani’s approach to designing garments: a true design process, from sketch to prototype, culminating in a model that was repeatable yet at the same time inimitable.
Summer Picks
Return to Casa das Canoas, the residence of Oscar Niemeyer
In 1955, Domus featured the home of the Brazilian master, created among the rock, forest, and sea of the Rio de Janeiro region, and returned half a century later to rediscover this masterpiece of a non-Eurocentric modernity.
Rediscovering Robert Venturi, the architect who “invented” Postmodernism
100 years after his birth, we revisit the story of the American architect and scholar through the pages of Domus—a figure who paved the way for postmodernism, from manifestos like Learning from Las Vegas to teapots designed for Alessi
How we envisioned the office of the future in 1982
From the Domus archives, a visionary reflection by Michele De Lucchi and a journey through the idea of workspace proposed by design 40 years ago, amidst the pressures of evolving information technology, flexibility and the last expressions of space-age fantasies.