Current Issue: Domus 857

Mariko Mori's Alien created, along with prototype flying saucer, for her new touring exhibiton that opened in Bregenz before embarking on its tour of the world, if not the galaxy. Portrait Red Saunders

A subtle view of the modern movement

Jencks updates himself

The art that refused to die

Structure and cladding

The mysterious masterpiece

Designing Jewellery

The man who designed a city

The invisible Dominique Perrault

The architecture of economy

The architecture of drawing

Competitions

Exhibitions, events, fairs

Tokujin in Roppongi

Bouroullec, Branzi in Cologne

Sushi in Milan

Ando in Fort Worth

Michael Webb and Todd Eberle's report on Tadao Ando's impressive new museum in Texas

A house in the mountains

Massimiliano Di Bartolomeo on the special qualities of an architect's first project

The void at La Scala

The row over demolishing the opera house to save it

Wood Marsh in Melbourne

The new gallery for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

The unknown Ponti

Gio Ponti is the subject of an exhibition opening in Milan this month. Stefano Casciani rediscovers his furniture for Domus' publisher Gianni Mazzocchi

Alien art

Mariko Mori's flying saucer is as much a triumph of high tech design as a piece of art

Bergne moves to Italy

Sebastian Bergne's new work

Home automation

Maria Cristina Tommasini selects the essentials

Ingo Maurer and the other Germany

Wall paper from Le Corbusier

The meaning of the tap

Editorial

by Deyan Sudjic