From the Domus archives, a visionary reflection by Michele De Lucchi and a journey through the idea of workspace proposed by design 40 years ago, amidst the pressures of evolving information technology, flexibility and the last expressions of space-age fantasies.
Editor in chief of Domus in the late 70s, the Milanese designer and critic – who passed away at 88 – always sought to interpret and shape his era. Like when he interviewed Piano, Rogers, and Rice at the unveiling of their landmark project.
From the Domus archives, a somehow dreamy and pictorial tale told by Ponti on his Mediterranean project, where he reinterpreted through materials the bond connecting art and landscape, anticipating the design hotel era.
Parallels between the Torre Velasca and Le Havre, between Aalto's Viipuri Library and Ignazio Gardella's Pavilion of Contemporary Art. On the occasion of Pierluigi Nicolin's death, we remember him through one of his many contributions to Domus.
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
We rediscover from our archive the contemporary icons that the architect had the students of the Politecnico di Milano “review” in “Lezioni di Piano”, a six-part series broadcast on Italian national television.
The Pritzker 2025 winner has always worked on the evocative value of his projects: in 2009 he could tell us a story, through the space he dedicated to a victim of the Sichuan earthquake.
From the 1930s to the 1970s, we take a look into the Domus archive to explore what designers came up with for outdoor living: light, colourful, portable furniture that could also be used as a toy.
The firm led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa has been awarded the highest accolade by the Royal Institute of British Architects: the project for the Louvre in Lens, from the Domus archive, recounts the human and aesthetic values of their architecture.
The Japanese architect, who left us at 88, had developed the radical teaching of the Metabolists and expressed it in projects and concepts destined to become emblematic: one of them, the Niramu House, was published on Domus in 1981.
