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Domus 1013
Cover: Non c'è Italia senza spine, drawing by Alessandro Mendini for Domus, May 2017. Graphics by Leonardo Sonnoli
Editoriale: Non c'è Italia senza spine
There’s no Italy without a thorn, says the drawing by Alessandro Mendini that gives this May issue of Domus its title. May is the month of roses, precisely.“A rose is a rose is a rose” goes a famous line by Gertrude Stein, as popular as it is enigmatic. The rose/Italy to which Domus issue 1013 is dedicated aims to reflect the call of this brilliant American poetess to see things for what they are.
The city of design
Italy has remained a federation of city-states. There are museum-cities and factory-cities. There is a city whose streets are made of water, and another whereall streets are hollowed walls...
SEEN FROM AFAR
Italomodern
Diary of a sentimental journey through a forgotten Italy
Grand Hotel Colosseo
Italian iconsITALY OUTSIDE ITALY
An endangered masterpiece
Gio Ponti. Villa Nemazee in Tehran is slated for demolition
A city for knowledge
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Columbia University Manhattanville, New York
A 21st-century campus
The analogous factory
Caruso Torricella Architetti. 52 buildings for Techint around the worldAN UNEXPECTED SIDE OF ITALY
Small giants
The ancient future of what is made in Italy
Italia, mondo
Innovation without bordersWHEN BUSINESS MAKES CULTURE
La Rinascente
A creative laboratory
Stories of industry
From the factory to the museum
At design school
The Italian road to designNEW ITALIAN LANDSCAPES
Cloud with a view
Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas. New congress centre at the EUR in Rome
Void and traces
Vincenzo Latina. Regenerating the old quarries of Lampedusa / Housing in Ronco di via Damone, Syracuse
Italian-style factory
Italo Rota. Industrial complex for Elatech in Brembilla, Bergamo
1-14 learning inside the kite
C+S Architects. School complex in Fontaniva, PaduaBACKBONE
Seismic Italy
Specimens from a diary about cataclysmsPLACES AND ART
Time is out of joint
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Art on the move
Three subway stations in Naples