Current Issue: Domus 872

Cover

Borders, buffer zones, walls, control systems, protected areas: You only have to leave your house or watch the news to realise that the space about us ripples with boundaries...

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva

The intrinsic nature of things

The litter of the architectural practice

Inward Look

Ettore Sottsass

Pictures from a window

Athens Olympic Games 2004. Spectators and expectations

A month from the start of the Games, many of the sports infrastructure building sites are still at work. We discuss this with Hariklia Hari e Yorgos Tzirtzilakis. Edited by Michele Brunello and Joseph Grima. Photography by Francesco Jodice

Giancarlo De Carlo. Can non-places be (re) transformed into ‘places’?

A space only becomes a place if it is lived

Renzo Piano 2004. Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern

Renzo Piano and Maurice Müller explain the origins of the idea for a museum dedicated to the great Swiss artist

Massimiliano Fuksas. The art of montage

Marco Belpoliti and Paolo Rosselli describe the Ferrari Product Development Centre at Maranello. Text by Marco Belpoliti. FotogrPhotographs by Paolo Rosselli and Joseph Grima

Droog and around: Journey in the Netherlands

A journey in Holland, hotbed of talents, to celebrate 10 years of Droog and present a new generation of designers. Edited by Francesca Picchi with Joris Laarman. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Alinghi’s Power

Domus presents the new boat that Alinghi will sail for the America’s Cup circuit and questions the power of the Swiss armada. Edited by Matteo Poli. Photography by Thierry Martinez

For Mario Merz

Jannis Kounellis remembers his lost friend. With a text by Manuela Gandini. Portrait by The Sankei Shimbun

Scott Lash. Paris/Shanghai

Extensive city versus intensive city?

A12. Rooms in the forest

In Otterlo, a wooden labyrinth accommodates the works of a group of contemporary artists. Photography by Alessandro Cimmino

Asymptote. Exhibition hulls

The design project for the next Venice Biennale of Architecture metaphorically interprets the historical spaces of the Arsenale. Text by Marco De Michelis

Interview: Richard Hamilton

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Richard Hamilton. Part two

Toyo Ito: Ripples on the Water

The Japanese architect explaines his idea for a mobile installation. Portrait by Ramak Fazel

Bruno Latour. Welcome to an Idea?

After the grand ideas of Modernism, is the future the new idea?

Art Graft: Dominique Gonzales Foerster

ALPHAVILLES

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

The design of Brooks Stevens

Bacon’s study

The last Meier

Rassegna: The new lamps

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

El Topo: David Zink Yi

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (Wrong Gallery)