The inventions of Achille and Pier Giacomo
A retrospective of the design work by the Castiglionis, published in September 1966 on Domus, tells us about their most recent inventions and at the same time, shows us how past inventions are not outdated.
Adalberto Libera’s Villa Malaparte
In 1980, American architect John Hejduk describes Adalberto Libera’s villa, designed for Curzio Malaparte, as a house of rituals and rites, of mysteries, an ancient play unraveling under Italian light.
Carlo Scarpa. The exhibition design of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, 1953-54
From Domus archives, images and sketches by the Venetian master recount his refined work on the 15th century noble building.
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A mini-space designed by Joe Colombo
Colombo's concept of dwelling can be read in the space he designed in Milan in 1968.
Rietveld, van Dantzig House
In 1962, the publication of a home near Haarlem designed by Gerrit Rietveld was an opportunity to reread his masterpiece symbol of De Stijl, the Schröder house.
In 1974, Domus reported on what was a unique event in Italy: a great, heterogeneous contemporary art collection assembled in 25 years by artist Remo Brindisi, installed in a “dwelling museum” designed by Nanda Vigo.
Villa Spies, Torö, Sweden, 1969
Made entirely of plastic, this fully circular villa was designed by Swedish architect Staffan Berglund for the Danish airline magnate Simon Spies; for years ignored by architecture critics, it has recently been revisited in a monograph.
Bernard Rudofsky: notes from a trip to the Orient
In 1959, the Viennese transplant to America anticipated some reflections on spontaneous architecture that would find fulfillment years later with the publication of Architecture without architects.
