Dear Zaha Hadid. A conversation between Alessandro Mendini and the Iraqi architect
We publish from the Domus Archive the interview between the director Alessandro Mendini and the young Iraqi architect, photographed on the cover of May 1984.
Jean Prouvé’s designs for prefab shelters
Fulvio Irace traces how Prouvé’s lifelong investigation into the “architecture of assembly” was covered in Domus from the 1940s to 1970s.
A stroll around the home of… Giorgio Morandi, the painter who transforms his surroundings into works of art
Our fourth appointment in the homes of the designers from the Domus Archive takes place in Bologna, at Giorgio Morandi's. This time, Leo Lionni recounts the visit to the painter's house with a sequence of words and images that seem to capture the transformation of the surroundings into works of art.
Viconic: the mythology of Vico Magistretti, from Domus archives
In the year of his 100th birthday, Domus explores the evolution of an icon of Italian architecture and design through an “archival photo story”.
From the archive: Jean Prouvé’s designs for prefab shelters
Fulvio Irace traces how Prouvé’s lifelong investigation into the “architecture of assembly” was covered in Domus from the 1940s to 1970s. From Domus 1046.
A stroll around the home of… Giorgio Morandi
Leo Lionni recounts the visit to the painter's house with a sequence of words and images that seem to capture the transformation of the surroundings into works of art.
A stroll around the home of… Leo Lionni, an art director in rural Connecticut
Our third appointment in the homes of the designers from the Domus Archive takes place at Leo Lionni’s, a Dutch artist who lives between Italy and America and owns a home-studio guarded by a horseman.
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Achille Castiglioni and Milan: a beer house, a pavilion and a showroom
During the roaring decades following World War II, the Milanese architect’s installations where the ultimate stage for the cosmopolitan recital of a rising city.
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Mario Galvagni’s architecture, beyond the stereotype of the misunderstood genius
Overlooked by critics for decades, the work of the Italian architect recently passed away needs to be observed as much as possible through a transparent lens, neither intentionally obscurantist, nor naively apologetic.
That Circumvesuviana train designed by Superstudio
These trains keep on running along the gulf, linking Naples to Sorrento: Learn more about the history of Superstudio’s electric train, the industrial masterpiece designed by the genius of Roberto Magris.
The speech by Gropius at the opening of the School of Ulm
In 1956, Domus published the speech given by the father of Bauhaus at the opening ceremony of its dialectical successor, the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG)