Current Issue: Domus 967

In this issue

Retooling history

Fuelled by seven million dollars in venture capital, Artsy, the online information platform, has created The Art Genome Project, a powerful and flexible taxonomy that is enhancing the way we access and organise all the world’s art and design.

Cover

This painting is one of a series of 12 by Robert Suermondt, prompted by the documentary report of Belgian collective Rotor on the eco-goals pursued by the Leuven Town Council to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030.

Editorial: Really sustainable?

Domus interviews Rotor

Op–Ed: Modern monsters at the Taipei Biennial

Pelin Tan

Journal


Photoessay

Roland Ultra. Giovanni Hänninen

An abode for Mediterranean culture

In Marseille, an enlightened political will has championed the realisation of an architecture built for the meeting of Mediterranean civilisations. Design Boeri Studio.

Art beacon in the Mediterranean

The open-air gallery of Mangiabarche is a conceptual exercise in contemporary art-making that proves the latent potential of the Mediterranean territory. Design Beyond Entropy.

Peak tectonics

A mountain house, which includes its owner’s atelier, proposes a daring but successful symbiosis between landscape, contemporary production and the vernacular tradition of Trentino-Alto Adige. Design MODUS architects.

Cultural condenser

A small building has inherited the legacy of the former Craftmen’s Stecca workshops. The Art Incubator is a space for everyone, in the heart of the city’s future tertiary district. Design Boeri Studio.

Imperfect beauty

Vitaliano Trevisan gives his impression of how the temporal dimension of a building’s life needs integrating into the design process. Design Cherubino Gambardella.

Autonomy by design

Two new sets of furniture demonstrate design’s potential to empower communities through self-production. Projects Alvaro Catalán de Ocón, Francesco Faccin.

Retooling history

Artsy, the online information platform, has created The Art Genome Project, a powerful and flexible taxonomy that is enhancing the way we access and organise all the world’s art and design.

Under the bonnet of the Internet

“Chrome Web Lab”, an interactive exhibit at the London Science Museum, presents the invisible fabric of the Internet as embodied in the world.

14 Do's for a Fuller Domus Academy

The vision, ambition and plans for the new Domus Academy—part of the LIU group—as explained by its new dean Gianluigi Ricuperati.

Network: International Space Orchestra

With the help of Bruce Sterling and Damon Albarn, experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has assembled an orchestra from a group of NASA scientists.

Mary Otis Stevens. The flux of human life

Mary Otis Stevens tells Domus about the stages in her extraordinary life: the revolutionary Lincoln House, the years at MIT, the founding of i press series and her more recent civil and cultural endeavours.

The broken city

Francesca Recchia uncovers the traces of a conflict which, after centuries of peaceful coexistence, has profoundly transformed the architectural and urban identity of Srinagar, in Kashmir.

Review

Office.

Panorama


Cold Case

Metropolitana Milanese.