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Current Issue:
Domus 962
Cover
Each time Diébédo Francis
Kéré returns to his home village
of Gando, Burkina Faso, he
brings with him a treasure
of knowledge to share with
everybody. Photos by Kéré
Architecture
Editorial: Min to Max
Ilka & Andreas Ruby
Op–ed: The quicksands
of Common Ground
Joseph Grima
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay
The African Years (1980—85). Jean-Philippe Vassal (Lacaton & Vassal)
Long live the crisis!
The depression induced by world recession has not damped the
creative spirit and innovative flair of the young architects at the
Something Fantastic office in Berlin. Text and drawings by Something Fantastic. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Clay-bound utopia
Gando is a village of 3,000 inhabitants, 200 kilometres from Ouagadougou, the capital
of Burkina Faso. It is also the experimental architectural workshop of Diébédo Francis
Kéré, who was born here. Text
by Jeanette Kunsmann. Photos
by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk,
Kéré Architecture. Edited by Laura Bossi
Artists as developers
How to preserve and regenerate an urban area that has lost its future because the
market refuses to see its value? Text by
Nathalie Janson
Photos
by Eric Hester, Rick Lowe. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Affordable by design
Recent work by Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw, Jonathan
Kirschenfeld, Peter Gluck and Partners, and SHoP Architects contribute significantly to redefining the ins
and outs of social housing in the heartland of capitalism. Text by Susanne Schindler. Edited by Laura Bossi
Cutting-edge
home-owners
In Berlin, homeowners make
residential buildings without the intervention
of a developer. text by
Jeanette Kunsmann.
design by
Zanderroth Architekten
Photos by Simon Menges, Andrea Kroth. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Network: Nature Room Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto proposed
the students of Boisbuchet
to conceptualise a new
relationship between
nature and architecture. Text by Grégoire Basdevant
From Dom-ino
to Polykatoikia
A group of teachers and researchers from the Berlage Institute harks back to the precursor of infill architecture, Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino system. Design by Labour, City, Architecture Unit, Berlage Institute. Text by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria S. Giudici, Platon Issaias. Edited by Laura Bossi
A city within the city
Originally meant to be a commuter dormitory outside Rio de Janeiro, over the years Cidade de
Deus has become an actual city inside its mother metropolis. Text by Rainer Hehl. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Bauhaus and back
Launched as an online platform to allow to make lowcost
diy furniture, the Hartz IV programme has become a globally networked virtual “factory”. Text by Julia von Mende. Photos
by Van Bo Le-Mentzel,
Daniela Kleint,
Urban Zintel. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Network: Studio Visit 01 / Maio
In the new Studio Visit section we present Maio, a four-member team
of Catalan architects
whose entrepreneurship
is unconventional,
versatile and brave. Text by Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Gun politics
Half a tonne of weapons, confiscated by the Mexican Ministry of Defence and donated to Pedro Reyes for artistic purposes, were turned into working musical instruments. Design by Pedro Reyes. Text by José Esparza. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
The dream lamp
For Flos’s 50th anniversary, the latest
lamp designed by Philippe Starck, the Light Photon, uses oled technology on the largest surface ever. Interview by Joseph Grima. Design by
Philippe Starck. Photos by Delfino Sisto Legnani.
Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Common Pavilions
With a series of literary and photographic essays on
the national pavilions, the Common Pavilions exhibition
staged in Venice’s Giardini,
invites visitors to become witnesses to the process of understanding architecture. Text and photos by Gabriele Basilico. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Rassegna
Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Panorama
Edited by Guido Musante
Cold Case
Canteen for the Olivetti staff. Edited by Luigi Spinelli