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With Rodrigo Rodriquez, former Cassina’s CEO, we try and cast light on the Montezemolo/Poltrona Frau-Haworth issue, which has dominated the economics and finance pages in recent weeks.
Alberto Cairo has the ability to turn datajournalism into an eager and absorbing attempt to make sense of the deluge of information that overwhelms us today.
Just before the overthrowing of President Mubarak, in early 2011 Elena Perlino portrayed the everyday side of Cairo, depicting a metropolis suspended between beauty and decadence.
Clad in a wooden lattice and bringing to mind some of wooden Kawamata’s sculptures, the building by Kengo Kuma defies the observer to guess its content and proposes a challenging business model.
Polish artist Katarzyna Krakowiak transformed the biggest post office in New York – the James A. Farley Post Office into a monumental sound sculpture.
The Natevo jury – Manuela Messina and Andrea Corti (FLOU), Susanna Legrenzi, Marva Griffin and Joseph Grima – takes Domus behind the scenes of a call for ideas exploring a new design approach.
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Roberta Brambilla explains to Domus her project for a platform devoted to the collection and study of prototypes, that today catalogues more than 100 mock-ups and prototypes and illustrating them in pictures, videos and summaries.
Hou Hanru, chinese curator and MAXXI’s artistic director, tells Domus the new social role of the museum that he would like to transform in a real platform for public participation and exchanges amongst artists, designers, curators and the public.
The Moshe Safdie exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Centre gives the opportunity to talk with the architect: about the dramas built into architecture, as well as the ones conveyed in shows about architecture. And he defends his contested position that an architect should be a chameleon.
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A new Natevo project called Bopeep is one of the first selections made by the jury in the call for ideas launched last April. Domus discusses it with the designer, Roberto Paoli.
The new Fondazione Trussardi nomadic exhibition takes us into the heart of the Brera district to encounter the site-responsive work of artists Allora & Calzadilla inside the historic Palazzo Cusani.
Starting from the latest innovations – Ripple and Amass – presented at the London Design Festival, Benjamin Hubert recounts to Domus his much-lauded “materials driven, process-led” approach.
