Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
In its third episode, the narration of Vico Magistretti through the Domus archive explores the interiors designed by the Milanese master, spatial devices instigating and questioning the act of dwelling.
Domus articles about the American architect, all from the 1970s, show a deep curiosity but also a certain suspicion for his top-down approach to the construction of the city.
Fulvio Irace pulls out from Domus archive Aldo Rossi’s Teatro del Mondo to contemplate scale. Playing with both miniturisation and enlargement, from architecture to object and back again, Rossi’s work “questions the identity of size.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
