Current Issue: Domus 885

Cover

Photographer and artist Amir Zaki (1974) draws inspiration from the mutations and impurities in the architectural heritage of the city of Los Angeles, such as these houses designed by Richard Neutra in the ’60s (p. 32), later disavowed by his descendents

Thoughts on New Orleans

Marco Belpoliti, Denise Scott Brown, Fumihiko Maki, Manuel DeLanda

Calendar

Edited by Elena Sommariva, Luigi Spinelli

Le design aujourd’hui?

Ettore Sottsass. Pictures from a window

Michael Maltzan. Prisms

Three designs by Californian architect Michael Maltzan on the relationship between private and public space. Edited by Joseph Grima, Karen Marta, Matteo Poli

Amir Zaki. Neutra Disavowed / Livia Corona. Sale House

Amir Zaki’s digitally manipulated photographs of Richard Neutra houses and Livia Corona’s images of Thom Mayne’s 2-4-6-8 Studio, become the Sale House by Johnston Marklee Architects, demonstrate, as Rastignac suggests, that no building in Los Angeles will achieve immortality as a “classic”

Bruno Latour. Interested scientists and disputable facts

Is science objective? A conversation between philosophers

Textile design/1 – Silks of the soul

Ancient brocades and damasks collected by a parish priest and artist. Text by Don Battista Marello. Edited by Rita Capezzuto. Photography by Fabio Esposito

Textile design/2 – Nanni Strada. Dressing in light

A vibrant fabric that reacts to light for religious garment. Photography by Francesco Radino. Edited by Francesca Picchi

Textile design/3 – Boontje, the embroiderer

A digital version of brocades and damasks by Tord Boontje. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Casper Sejersen

Interview: Bruce Conner

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B Kvaran interview Bruce Conner. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Beatriz Colomina. Friends of the Future

A conversation with Peter Smithson, on June 2000, in his home in London. Edited by Karen Marta, Loredana Mascheroni

nicole_fvr/2A+P. Round Blur

A roundabout in the heart of Turin becomes the site for an experimental park. Testo di/Text by nicole_fvr/2A+P. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Superplaces

On a couple of compelling metaphors for globalisation

Mobile landscape

MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory creates a real-time census for the management of the city’s resources. Text by William J. Mitchell. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Constant. New Babylon’s roots

Domus reconstructs the origins of architecture’s first nomadic utopia. Testo di/Text by Francesco Careri. Photography by Armin Linke. Edited by Francesco Careri (stalker/osservatorio nomade), Elena Sommariva

Future Systems. Future school

School-capsules that uncover new spatial and didactic possibilities. Photography by Soren Aagaard. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Australian Bypass

A steel ribbon embraces the landscape on Melbourne’s outskirts. Photography by John Gollings (courtesy of Vic Roads), Peter Hyatt, Robert Owen. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Art Graft. Koo Jeong-A

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Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Learning from Montréal

Queries are still open on Piacentini

Rassegna: The new bathroom

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

El Topo: Roman Ondák

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