Current Issue: Domus 849

The future that wasn’t. Relics of the Soviet space programme at Baikonur

Was Oud the first postmodernist?

The playful city

Writing with light

Pierre Chareau and the fourth dimension

Industry and creative freedom

A modern history of time

Pop Opera

The fluid space between art and design

The weakness of things

The Visible and the Invisible

Gio Ponti, a Janus-faced designer

Competitions

Exhibitions, events, fairs

Diller & Scofidio unveil their Swiss cloud

Vigo’s waterfront

New civic offices by Bonell and Gil

Retreating from the world

Peter Kulka gives the Benedictines a contemporary edge

Watching the name go by

Ashton Raggatt McDougal’s cultural centre for an Australian suburb creates an instant identity

The ruins of the Soviet Union

Mark Irving explores the relics of the early days of space exploration

The future of education

Special supplement on Bocconi University’s competition of ideas

The river museum

n! studio architects reconfigure the elements of museum design

The art of the face

Sergio Calatroni creates a new cosmetics label

Kitchen

Maria Cristina Tommasini looks at the best of new design

King and Miranda’s selection

Dieter Rams at 70

Editorial

by Deyan Sudjic