Current Issue: Domus 850

Gabriele Basilico’s photograph of Claudio Silvestrin’s new arts centre in Turin

Religious representation and contemporary art

Reyner Banham and the refrigerator row

Reappraising Hannes Meyer

Kukkapuro as a functionalist and postmodernist

A modern construction site

The contemporary city and its side effects

Art as architecture

Truth from two angles

Competitions

Exhibitions, events, fairs

A shop for Ferrari

Sottsass exhibits jewellery

A new maritime terminal

A bank for Copenhagen

Henning Larsen’s architecture addresses urban scale, says Sebastiano Brandolini

Austria in New York

Raimund Abraham’s cultural centre in Manhattan is a tiny sliver of a building but a powerful demonstration of his distinctive architectural language

Art in the city

Claudio Silvestrin’s Turin arts complex is positioned on the edge of the city in a deliberate attempt to make culture accessible. Stefano Casciani reports

Dior in Milan

Installation art joins architecture as part of the fashion repertoire

Pichler’s house

Paolo Piva on the latest architectural work of the artist Walter Pichler

Swiss Expo.02

The Swiss have done their best to rescue the tarnished name of the Expo from the banality of Hanover

Digital Documenta

Pierre Restany on a Documenta that sets out to disturb the liberals

Arad as art director

Ron Arad has been choosing designers to work on furniture for Hidden

Materials and furniture

Maria Cristina Tommasini selects new textiles, materials and accessories

A bridge too far

Niki de Saint Phalle remembered

Five favourites of Corrado Levi

Editorial

by Deyan Sudjic