Under the dazzling sun of Southern California, amidst palm trees and swimming pools, the modernist houses built in the post-war years have redefined the traditional aesthetic and functional approach to living, becoming milestones of contemporary architecture.
Inspired by the surrounding, almost lunar environment of Faqra, Karim Nader Studio designs a private residence as an extension of the rocky context: a multitude of grey volumes surmounted by a horizontal roof.
Under the sun and amidst luxuriant vegetation Brutalism, although in continuity with its founding principles, abandones any serious aura to embrace a more euphoric language in synergy with nature.
Designed by studio ArquitectónicA (Cecilia Yarmuch + Alejandro Aguilera), Casa Negra consists of two separate volumes housing the living and working functions while blending into the landscape.
Nicknamed the Jenga Tower by New Yorkers for its irregular protruding shape, five years into its own experimenti in vertical living, 56 Leonard Street seems like a comparatively successful combination of far-out urban fantasy and pragmatic machine-a-habiter.
A dreamlike chapel in the mountains is a metaphor for universal balance and evokes a season of development from the eternal rhythms of nature.
In Folkstone, UK, a four-story complex becomes a symbol of urban and generational regeneration, leveraging sports and culture as tools for individual and social redemption.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Las Hadas, a project by Reims 502, is one of the rare examples of multi-dwelling on the outskirts of Santiago de Querétaro, a city characterised by an expanse of single-family houses.
A tour of the city’s modern architecture through religious masterpieces designed by three great Milanese architects.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect, senator for life, multifarious inventor: throughout six decades, all of them documented in the Domus archives, Renzo Piano has told his story in words and projects. The first part of such journey is an innovative reflection on the role of those who live for designing.
In an open confrontation between Davide Borsa and Alessandro Melis, the issues and positive aspects of the most contested pavilion of the last Venice Biennale are brought to light.
In a gripping essay dedicated to the small Italian town called Civita di Bagnoregio, Giovanni Attili observes an exceptional place, characterised by a unique geomorphological landscape.
The Portuguese approach to architecture as told to Domus by one of its masters: an anti-archistar, a thinker rather than a communicator, a convinced pragmatist who quotes Calvino and Lukács.
The extension and renovation of a safari camp emphasises the values of sustainability and luxury hospitality in a spectacular natural setting.
Dutch architectural firm Concrete has teamed up with the company StoneCycling to reduce the environmental impact of its first project in the United States.
