Domus presents Frank Gehry’s recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the new swimming and sports centre by Bearth & Deplazes Morger + Dettli in St Moritz, a Milan office building by Mauro Galantino, the poetic Storkhouse by Terunobu Fujimori in Austria, and the N.B.K. skyscraper in Beirut by Bernard Khoury, where he also lives. This month’s projects include a house designed in 1943 by Amancio Williams for his musician father in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Manolo De Giorgi continues his analysis of interiors, this time looking at the custodian’s vestibule, a place of mediation between the public and private spheres; and the anthropologist Antonello Ciccozzi warns against becoming inured to landscape degradation.
We discuss universities with Mohsen Mostafavi of The Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Chora’s ambitious teaching activities – at the Technical University of Berlin and the Metropolitan University in London – after embracing the ambitious goal of training architects who can implement the new disciplines and technologies of the Smart City; you can also explore Grafton’s project for the new UTEC campus in Lima.
The Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern art in New York, referenced on the magazine’s cover, is narrated via a text by the artist himself and the Umberto Riva one at the CCA in Montreal is a chance to reread the Milanese architect’s rich lamp production. Austrian artist Peter Friedl explains his Rehousing project (2012–2014), analysing the links between historical fact, political ideology and personal identity through six different housing models.
November’s Feedback features Luciano Semerani’s Trieste, told as the reconstruction of a mental process. In Elzeviro, Cristiana Collu comments on the us who should become “an exercise that could keep us fit, chewing through our “us” no longer as a personal pronoun but as the way to inhabit
the earth.”
Domus is doubled up this month, as issue 985 comes with a free supplement on the Smart City, exploring a crucial theme in the development of cities.
