Current Issue: Domus 880

Cover

With his latest design for a collection of lamps, Philippe Starck brings the semiotics of war into the commercial sphere of domestic furnishings. Exposing not only the potential but also the hazards and hypocrisies of the western world’s contemporary furniture design...

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva, Luigi Spinelli

Louise Bourgeois. Art is a guarantee of sanity

Ettore Sottsass. Existential design

Disobedience. A Letter from Berlin

Ettore Sottsass. Pictures from a window

c/o Castiglioni. By analogy

In contact with the magical and imaginative world of Achille Castiglioni, six authors discuss the relationship between everyday objects and design. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Guided visit: Zaha Hadid - Leipzig

“Stolen” images of the new BMW plant in Leipzig. A cura di/Edited by Matteo Poli

Living among the dead. Inside Cairo’s inhabited cemeteries

The family tombs of Cairo’s cemeteries are home to tens of thousands of people. Domus investigates the causes and effects of this phenomenon. Photography by Charlie Koolhaas. Texts by Sandi Hilal, Charlie Koolhaas, Alessandro Petti. Edited by Elena Sommariva

Bruno Latour. Critical state or critical stand?

The importance of having truly different political opinions. A conversation between philosophers

Treasure Island

The incredible and unpublished story of the Castiglioni brothers’ scenography designed for the science-fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island by Renato Castellani. Text by Bruce Sterling. Edited by Francesca Picchi

Castiglioni and the talking objects

Marco Belpoliti gives voice to some of the anonymous objects in Achille Castiglioni’s collection and reveals their mysterious metamorphoses. Photography by Paolo Rosselli

Wurmkos Abitare

Art and psychiatry: a design experience by an extraordinary group of artists. Text by Simona Bordone. Photography by Annalisa Guidetti, Antonio Maniscalco

Plastic rock

An unremarkable fire escape in the Shang Qing Garden condominium, Shanghai, has taken on the appearance of a massive rock face - a perfect example of Analogous Romanticism. Photography by Ferdinando Rollando. With a critical text by Qingyun Ma. Edited by Joseph Grima

Interview: Clifford Geertz

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews this eminent figure in the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by Thomas Boutoux, Loredana Mascheroni

Tactical urbanism

Following World War II, annexation battles flared up around the major cities of Texas. Keith Krumwiede maps the geography of this “territorial warfare”. Text and maps by Keith Krumwiede. Edited by Joseph Grima

Andrea Branzi. Constant’s poetic revolution

The utopian thinking of the inventor of “mass creativity”

The bodies of objects

Homage to Michele Provinciali. Text by Mario Piazza

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

The long road towards independence

Kalach architect-gardener

A protagonist: Margherita Sarfatti

The architecture of Max Bill

Rassegna: Furniture

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini. Opening images by Paolo Pandullo

Panorama

El Topo: Clemens von Wedemeyer

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (Wrong Gallery)