Current Issue: Domus 957

Cover

These interconnections that look like seductive natural forms are actually sophisticated details of the Multithread system, developed through a software application created by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram. Photo Tom Vack

Editorial: The future is now

Op–ed: How I lost my shoes

Johan van Lengen

Journal

Edited by Elena Sommariva

Photoessay: The Monument Upside Down

Sevgi Ortaç

Oriented patterns

Höweler+Yoon, which grew up in the critical concreteness of American schools in the late 1990s, proposes an innovative way to draw on artisan construction practices. Test by Mimi Zeiger. Photos by Yihuai Hu, Höweler+Yoon Architecture

The Future in the Making: The Kickstarter revolution

Could Kickstarter transform the design industry as we know it? Text by Joseph Grima. Photos by Ramak Fazel, Michelle Litvin, Delfino Sisto Legnani. Infographics Simone TrottiEdited by Loredana Mascheroni

Robotic Autoprogettazione

Using a repurposed industrial robot that melts plastic obtained from recycled fridge components, Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij has created a micro-industry capable of producing 4,000 units per year. Text by Loredana Mascheroni. Photos by Delfino Sisto Legnani

Force feedback

Two new projects by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram presented at this year's Fuorisalone, the R18 Ultra Chair Public Beta and Multithread, explore the intersections of furniture design. Photos by Tom Vack. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Salone del Mobile 2012: Countdown

On the eve of Milan’s great event, Domus offers a photographic preview of some forthcoming pieces by workshops of Italian production. Photos by Ramak Fazel, Delfino Sisto Legnani. Texts by Loredana Mascheroni, Roberto Zancan

Network: BLKB Bank

House Turtle

On the coast of Ghana, Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach have teamed up to create a visionary experiment that straddles architecture, art and technology. Text by Caroline Corbetta. Photos by Attilio Maranzano. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Monsoon House

Realised by Studio Mumbai, this country house is an elegant refuge immersed in a mango wood, but also a fortress against the intensity of tropical storms. Text by Radhika Desai. Photos by Hélène Binet. Edited by Laura Bossi

Stellar perspectives

Corrado Levi conceived his own furnishings for his new apartment, turning to a team of builders to manufacture them. Text by Michele Calzavara. Photos by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Post-Disaster Design: Shelters for all

The acronym kisyn unites five renowned Japanese architects—Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Riken Yamamoto and Hiroshi Naito—who have placed their bond of friendship at the service of posttsunami reconstruction. Text by Julian Worrall. Edited by Laura Bossi

Post-Disaster Design: Back to earth

In Ma’anqiao, the 2008 earthquake destroyed 263 out of 272 houses. Today, this remote Sichuan village has become a workshop of design experimentation. Texts by Jun Mu, Edward Ng, Tiegang Zhou, Li Wan. Edited by Laura Bossi

Network: IM Blanky

Developed by Studio NMinusOne, this is a self modeling blanket exhibiting primitive cognitive skills

The planned design of socialism

The archive of photographer Reinhard Mende, who between 1967 and 1990 extensively documented East German manufacturing, highlights the relationship between objects and the people who made them. Text by Philip Ursprung. Photos by Reinhard Mende. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

The Machine Civilisation

Amid the tortuous motion of hydraulic mechanisms, and the first fantasies of post-human machines, perhaps we can find a key to understanding the myths that lurk behind our smartphones and our image society? Text by Massimiliano Gioni. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Unpacking my library: Marva Griffin Wilshire

Deeply attached to her Venezuelan origins, Marva Griffin, curator of the Salone Satellite, has a predilection for South American writers and biographiesInterview by Gianluigi Ricuperati. Photo by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Rassegna: Furniture

Edited by Laura Bossi

Panorama

Edited by Guido Musante

Cold Case: Sendai Mediatheque. A store of communication

On 11 March a decade later its first publication in Domus, a devastating earthquake confirmed the Toyo Ito building’s qualities of elasticity and adaptability to seismic movements of the earth. Edited by Luigi Spinelli