During an impromptu trip to Los Angeles, Álvaro Siza's sketches and drawings became project material for the Getty Villa. Peter Testa, who was with him, tells how those drawings are emblematic of the great Portuguese architect’s work.
In a time of global systemic crisis, libraries are increasingly a beacon of community awareness and identity, projects developed in the belief that only knowledge will save us. We have selected 12 representative projects around the world.
Caught in between the fireworks of the Montreal Expo and the ice of Canadian winters, the history of the housing complex through the pages of Domus archive, and the photography by Roberto Conte.
Nine dwellings in some of the most forbidding territories on the planet testify to the value of resilience in architecture, in respect of nature as an omnipresent and constant interlocutor.
The new king never hid anti-modernist ideas about architecture and ecological visions, which found practical realization in a neo-traditional style village designed with the collaboration of Leon Krier.
A dreamlike chapel in the mountains is a metaphor for universal balance and evokes a season of development from the eternal rhythms of nature.
A skiers’ shelter with an essential volume encloses a warm and cosy interior, where the lights of aurora borealis shine.
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.
Summary studio designed eleven cabins of different typologies in Aldeia da Paradinha following the natural conformation of the landscape and using a particular modular system.
Dana Arquitectos designs Casa Mitmac playing with different volumes and material rhythms: a house developed on four floors articulated around a secret space.
In conversation with Domus, the anarchitect talks about the golden years of radical architecture in Italy and all over the world, and why he got along better with artists than architects.
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.
A Portuguese house explores the themes of transition between exterior and interior and between functional spaces, and the relationship of light with space and materials.
In a mountain village a few kilometres from Beijing, Chinese firm Domain Architects converts an abandoned school into a luxury hotel.
A house nestled on the shores of Lake Maggiore blends the refined elegance of an exclusive home with a deep environmental responsibility.
