In 2022, the great thinker of complexity, who has left us at the age of 104, shared with Domus his vision of the interdependent relationship between city and countryside, one that could regain balance through solidarity and responsibility.
We remember the Canadian architect through 60 years of Domus archives: a multifaceted figure who challenged technique to assert how architecture is (also) a work of art.
Since the early 70s, the most eclectic figure of Italian Radical Design worked on the idea of a home capable of expanding perception. By 1983, he presented furnishings for a house traversed by information, screen-armchairs for a television-driven society.
Among Jodorowsky’s tarot readings, picnics with Enzo Mari, and Yona Friedman’s polystyrene cities, during Fuorisalone 2005 Domus opened the legendary stadium to the city for one night, transforming it into a Fun Palace at the heart of Milan.
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
The United Kingdom mourns Nicholas Grimshaw (1939–2025) and Terry Farrell (1938–2025). Early in their careers they worked in partnership, with projects poised between technology and landscape: Domus recounted this story through three industrial buildings along the Thames.
The Turin-based architect and designer created some of the cornerstones of contemporary Italian culture, from the Pratone for Gufram to the 2006 Winter Olympics housing and helped shape our early radical cultural clubs like Piper and Altro Mondo. Domus visited them in 1968.
In 1988, Domus explored Armani’s approach to designing garments: a true design process, from sketch to prototype, culminating in a model that was repeatable yet at the same time inimitable.
In 1955, Domus featured the home of the Brazilian master, created among the rock, forest, and sea of the Rio de Janeiro region, and returned half a century later to rediscover this masterpiece of a non-Eurocentric modernity.
100 years after his birth, we revisit the story of the American architect and scholar through the pages of Domus—a figure who paved the way for postmodernism, from manifestos like Learning from Las Vegas to teapots designed for Alessi
