Current Issue: Domus 908

Cover

Designs from the typescript Archizoom Dressing Design for the exhibition in Trieste, 1973. Domus archives

Editorial. Geography and measuring the Earth

Flavio Albanese. Geography and measuring the Earth

News, events, competitions, projects

Edited by Silvia Monaco

Exploring the limits

Arturo Franco and Fabrice van Teslaar’s intervention on Madrid’s ex-slaughterhouse, a future cultural centre. Design by Arturo Franco, Fabrice van Teslaar. Text by Arturo Franco

Folly and Utopia

In Almere, the Theatre/School by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Design by SANAA. Text by Stefano Casciani

Playing by the rules

The new school building in the forests by studio ipas in Genolier, Switzerland. Design by ipas. Text by Rita Capezzuto

Bamboo and clay: renovating tradition

A school in Bangladesh designed by Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag. Design by Anna Heringer, Eike Roswag. Text by Rita Capezzuto

East loves West

East meets West in an industrial building in Bombay. Design by Vrinda Khanna, Robert Schultz. Text by Laura Bossi

The trial of Nature and Artefact

A “Sculpture Garden” in Seattle by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Design by Weiss/Manfredi. Text by Stefano Casciani

ECObox: mobile devices and urban tactics

Partecipation as a means of transformation. Design by aaa. Text by Ruth Morrow

Never alone in a garden

Calaf, Catalonia. Design by 2A+P architettura

Beyond the garden

Redemption of Bari’s outskirts. Design by ma0, M. Franco

House D (46°44’15’’ N 11°39’18’’ W)

A house-gallery designed by PAUHOF for the mountain region of Tirolo. Design by PAUHOF. Text by Giampiero Bosoni

An interwoven diamond

Marc Frohn and Mario Rojas Toledo’s tent/house in Santiago de Chile. Design by FAR. Text by Laura Bossi

Archizoom Associati

The old guard. Text by Paolo Deganello

Intersections: Environmental geographies

What is geography? Astrology and territory. From Surrogate travel to DIY maps. CLUI, a land museum. Mapping spaces to the millimetre. Ways of the mind. Towards a cartography of the mind

My island kindergarten

A joint project with the Technische Universität of Berlin. Design and text by Die Baupiloten

Lest we forget

A small museum in Sant’Anna di Stazzema. Design and text by Pietro Carlo Pellegrini

Petra Blaisse, Shifted Room

Intervening in the cumbersome past of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Text by Chris Dercon

The anarchic looms of Soveria: the capital of imperfection

The case of Lanificio Leo. Testx by Emilio Leo. Comment by Nanni Strada

Books

Between geography and law: Aldo Andrea Cassi. Modernity in Manhattan. The history of the others. The evasive Asplund. Art seen by artists

Log

If a tree falls in a meadow and I’m the only one there, does anyone else see it? Text by Charles Ray

Modernism. The Stockholm affair

Olle Bærtling and the utopic spirit of modernism. Text by Daniel Birnbaum

Rudolf Stingel

Text by Francesco Bonami

Interview

A talk with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Interview by Flavio Albanese

Artissima. A new identity

Andrea Bellini for Turin. Text by Francesco Bonami

Patrick Tuttofuoco, Future City, Enel Contemporanea, Piazza del Popolo, Rome

Rassegna: Finishes

Domestic landscape: a choice of materials and solutions for interior finishes