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.
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
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
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.
Today’s Oscars award stories about houses – from Poor Things! to The Zone of Interest – and as early as eighty years ago, as Italy was reopening to the world, a future master of Italian cinema told Domus how “houses in cinema are to the characters as houses in life are to people”.
In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the winner of the 2024 Pritzker Prize was teaming up with several major names in Japanese architecture for the Home-for-All project, seeking to foster a different future in devastated areas.
