Farewell to Adolfo Natalini, member of the famous Florentine group Superstudio. In remembering him, we examine a period characterised by contamination between artistry and architecture at the end of the 1960s.
In 1975, Domus 544 publishes an essay by Massimo Gennari, who retraces the urban history of Rio de Janeiro and points the finger at a high-quality architecture of dubious political value.
Between 1966 and 1977, Domus observes with watchful eyes the career of a young Lombard designer, investigating the shapes and territories of that decade’s architecture.
In 2013, Domus presented the experiment of an offshore building-State, and questioned the political challenges of technology. Seven years later, and 51 years after the sinking of the “Rose Island”, the situation is not looking so different.
Farewell to Adolfo Natalini, member of the famous Florentine group Superstudio. In remembering him, we examine a period characterised by contamination between artistry and architecture at the end of the 1960s.
Massimo Vignelli was an innovative designer and a meticulous graphic designer from the very beginning. By recounting his many projects, Domus retraces the steps of his long career in Italy and in the USA.
Or rather, the “non-house” designed by Ettore Sottsass junior. The small Milanese hideout of the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro, which was designed by Ettore Sottsass Jr. in the late 1960s, is still intact.
Remembering the influential Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti, Domus turns to its archives and republishes two projects for Olivetti in the 1960s, chosen amongst the many occasions Aulenti’s work graced the pages of the magazine.
For the last three decades, Domus has been covering and commenting the English architect’s career, through the words of architecture critics, historians and designers.
To celebrate the centenary of Giancarlo De Carlo’s birth, we propose a lesser-known side of the famous theorist and architect: the one of the interior designer, through Domus archive.
Charles Jencks on Domus through the years, from our archives. Critical texts, reviews, books and projects from the controversial theoretician of Post-Modern.
