Current Issue: Domus 873

Cover

On March 18, 1944, a few days after the last aerial bombardments of Naples, Mount Vesuvius erupted. At least 12,000 people were evacuated and 26 died in buildings crushed under the weight of deposited ash...

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva

A tired system needs new energy

A fashionable and necessary series of exhibitions

Ettore Sottsass

Pictures from a window

Italy 2004 News from the interior

The architecture of contemporary Italy through the conversion of interior spaces. Text by Mirko Zardini

Dan Graham. Half Square/Half Crazy

In front of Terragni’s Casa del Fascio at Como, Graham pays a subtly ironic homage to modernism. Edited by Joseph Grima. Photography by Paolo Rosselli

Giancarlo De Carlo. The brackets of the Client

Reflections and memories

Croatia. A Fertile Delay?

A report on the two workshops organised by Domus in Zagreb to discuss territory, art and architecture in Croatia. Edited by Rita Capezzuto, Matteo Ghidoni, Ivana Katuric

Vedran Mimica. Don’t cry Croatia

Let’s invent reality

Bruno Latour. The Ghost of the Public

New forms of representation

Min Gong. City Builders

A journey among the ‘invisible’ workmen constructing the new Shanghai. Edited by Kayoko Ota, Elena Sommariva. Text, interviews and research by Juan Du. Photography by Greg Girard

Iñaki Abalos. What is Landscape?

The entropic and fragile world left to us by the modern age

Atelier Bow-Wow. Post-“Bubble” Japanese Realism

Four recent works by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, inspired by Tokyo’s idiosyncracies. Edited by Kayoko Ota. Text by Taro Igarashi. Photography by Takashi Omma

Of Art and Architecture

Conversation between Germano Celant and Pierluigi Nicolin. Edited by Laura Bossi

Interview: Alessandro Mendini

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Alessandro Mendini and visits his Atelier. Portrait by Ramak Fazel

Royal College of Art. The Show

Domus has selected some of the works shown at the 2004 exhibition. Edited by Joseph Grima. With an introduction by Vico Magistretti. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Front. Tracce dal nord

Four young designers research the morphological implications of the instinctive actions of animals Edited by Francesca Picchi. Text by Marco Belpoliti. Portrait by Johan Ödmann. Photography by Anna Lönnerstam, Katja Kristoferson

Philippe Parreno. The Doppler Effect

Does the future influence the present?

Art Experience Venice. No Vitrines, No Museums, No Artists: Just A Lot of People

Two Venetian workshops with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Christian Marclay. Text by Maurizio Bortolotti

Art Graft: Marina Ballo Charmet

Primo Campo - Con la coda dell’occhio (Close up - Out of the corner of the eye)

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Architecture as pure language

Rassegna: The new furniture

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini. Cover photo courtesy by Bd Ediciones de Diseño

Panorama

El Topo: Shirana Shahbazi

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