Playing with both miniturisation and enlargement, from architecture to object and back again, Rossi’s work “questions the identity of size.”
The movie, which turns eighty years old, arrived in Italian theatres only in 1946. Domus dedicated to Fantasia a long review, written by a young cinema critic and future master of commedia all'italiana.
From the Edison light bulb to the safety pin, there are many design objects without author always present in our daily life. In this archive of Domus 811 we have selected seven of them, different but all with a history and a patent behind them.
On October 7, 1913, Ford inaugurated the assembly line developed for the T model. For the occasion, we publish a narration of the American company from Domus 816.
Through the decades, Domus published the most relevant projects built by the Italian design master; and they are all houses, be their inhabitant a single family or a whole city.
Through the decades, Domus published the most relevant projects built by the Italian design master; and they are all houses, be their inhabitant a single family or a whole city.
In Domus 1049, Fulvio Irace retraces the history of Brasilia through the archive and the impressions of Cesare Casati, who produced an extensive reportage for the magazine, published in 1966.
Published on Domus, November 1979, Scott Bromley’s stage for a beach party at Fire Island Pines, the favourite vacation spot of New York’s gay community.
As mass tourism rapidly rises, millions of people settle by the shoreline, or at least they do so for a few weeks every year. From the Domus archives, a selection of the best architectures designed for them.
In 1995, Lisa Ponti wrote a review of the exhibition at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bergamo dedicated to the Colombo brothers and to their shared artistic research on space, carried out in the fervent cultural environment that characterized the Milan of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Today, as in the 1960s, holiday homes are once again the favorite summer destination. The spaces, optimized and flexible, inspired by the vernacular architecture of the Mediterranean, welcome the landscape, the guest of honor.
