The January issue explores new work by Herzog & de Meuron, whose Parrish Art Museum's simplistic form allows and overturns first impressions, critiquing contemporary architecture's obsession with iconic form; SANAA's ethereal, otherworldly outpost for the Louvre in Lens; and Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti's undulating golden canopy, a new home for the Department of Islamic Art at the Parisian home of the same museum.
In issue 965, we visit Richard Sapper in his Milan apartment, consider recent designer attempts at taming concrete and bringing this material into the domestic sphere, and examine a series of exhibitions that shed light onto the work of Lithuanian-born artist, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas.
Table of contents
Cover
Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson involved the German artist Gustav Metzger in a creative experiment. Having asked him to think about nothing, they extracted data from his encephalogram and used it to carve a block of stone. The resulting work, Thinking About Nothing, is reproduced on the cover
Editorial: It's about time all over again
Joseph Grima interviews Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson (London Fieldworks) and Gustav Metzger
Op–Ed: It's about time all over again
Florian Idenburg
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay
Fordlandia. Dan Dubowitz
Light in the city
In 1977, two architects met in Manhattan in a small TriBeCa loft. Their friendship was sparked by an extraordinary drawing of Piranesian influence by one of them, Lebbeus Woods. Design Steven Holl Architects. Photos Brando Posocco. Edited by Laura Bossi
Lebbeus Woods 1940—2012
Tributes to a fearless creator of worlds. Texts Boeri, Denari, Hadid, Kumpusch, Manaugh, Mayne, Owen Moss, Saraceno, Sorkin, Noever, Obrist, Vidler, Zardini, Frampton. Edited by Laura Bossi
Parrish Art Museum
At Water Mill, New York State, a white line slices purposefully through the pastoral landscape. It is the new Parrish Art Museum. Design Herzog & de Meuron. Text Matthew Allen. Photos Yoo Jean Han. Edited by Laura Bossi
A museum of time
In the French city of Lens, the grand dame of Parisian museums, the Louvre, has established an ethereal, otherworldly outpost deeply steeped in the diaphanous language of SANAA. Text Sam Jacob. Photos Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
The golden cloud
Last September, the inauguration of a new exhibition space sheltered by an undulating golden canopy transformed one of the Louvre's courtyards into a new home for the museum's Department of Islamic Art. Text Sam Jacob. Photos Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Network: Campus Bocconi
The relationship between organic forms and human life is the basis for the new campus designed by SANAA for Bocconi University. Project by SANAA. Text Paola Nicolin
SuperNormal: Little Printer A portrait in the nude
Little Printer is a product of now. It is a product—i.e. a tangible thing—but it is also a product, in the sense of a consequence, of contemporary culture. Text Dan Hill. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Taming concrete 1
The launch of three pieces in the new Concrete Collection represents the second stage in a global project undertaken by Matali Crasset with a small French company to bring concrete into the home. Interview Loredana Mascheroni. Photos Simon Bouisson
Taming concrete 2
Over the past couple of years, research into lightweight concrete, amalgams and techniques of bonding with other materials has made an age-old dream of designers—bringing concrete into the living room—practicable for a variety of applications. Text Loredana Mascheroni
The black box syndrome
Justin McGuirk pays Richard Sapper a visit in his Milan apartment to discuss design, Dieter Rams, and why the ThinkPad's TrackPoint is red. Text Justin McGuirk. Photos Ramak Fazel. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Artist with a movie camera
After living for 60 years Bolex cine-camera in hand, Lithuanian-born artist, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas is being celebrated in a series of almost concurrent exhibitions in London, Paris and Mexico City. Text Federico Nicolao. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Network: MammaFotogramma Allez Up
WoodSkin, a project by MammaFotogramma presented in the "Domus— Autoprogettazione 2.0" competition, finds its use in a "handcrafted interior". Text Chiara Alessi
Architecture of adrenalin
Having grown at a dizzy rate in the past ten years, today's ever-larger and more complex roller-coasters are sophisticated architectures, designed to let people experience and overcome extreme sensations. Text Giampiero Bosoni. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Review
Lighting. Edited by Laura Bossi, Giulia Guzzini
Panorama
Edited by Guido Musante
Cold Case
Taranto Cathedral. Text Luigi Moretti, Lisa Ponti. Edited by Luigi Spinelli