Current Issue: Domus 876

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In reality, what is Milan’s la Scala today? In just 60 years, one of the most famous opera houses in the world has been rebuilt twice. The first was after the aerial bombardments of August 1943, which – as Domus reported at the time – destroyed the roof and the proscenium...

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva

New bodies, new lives. On Archilab 2004

Not just clothes: when fashion meets art

When painting represents only itself

Ettore Sottsass. Pictures from a window

Steven Holl. Voice of the Suburbs?

Some reflections on George W. Bush’s re-election: suburbs vs urban centres?

SANAA. 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s latest project alters the museum’s conventional spatial organisation, sacrificing monumentality for the sake of a strong integration with its surrounding urban context. Edited by Joseph Grima. Photography by Walter Niedermayr

Giancarlo De Carlo. The spirits of Milan

An appeal in favour of Milan

Gillo Dorfles. The museum as history and architecture

Theatres and museums are the only contemporary buildings with an impression of everlastingness

Pierre Boulez, Frank Gehry, Paul Holdengräber. In the ear of the beholder

A composer/conductor, an architect and a critic talk about music, architecture and their interction with people. Edited by Karen Marta, Laura Bossi

About the Scala

Milan’s La Scala Theatre reopens after three years of construction and controversy. Texts by John Foot, Angela Frucci. Photography by Lelli&Masotti. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni, Elena Sommariva

Max Neuhaus. Shaping sound

Neuhaus’s non-visual works of art have opened up the territory of contemporary art to the use of sound. Text by Yehuda Safran. Photography by Francesco Jodice

Bruno Latour. Politics of time, politics of space

Everything has become contemporary. The time of cohabitation is here

Interview: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Karlheinz Stockhausen, the most innovative and influential German composer of the postwar era. Edited by Thomas Boutoux, Laura Bossi. Photography by Roberto Masotti

D.H. Damien Hirst in Naples. It’s great to be alive

Hirst’s solo show at the Museo Archeologico in Naples. Text by Caroline Corbetta. Photography by Pino Guidolotti

Steven Holl. Eight towers and a flying ring

Outside Beijing’s historic walls, Steven Holl is building a “city within a city” complete with a flying ring of public spaces. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Simon Heijdens. Biography of objects

The young Dutch designer applies the techniques acquired in his study of cinema to the design of everyday objects. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Text by Marco Belpoliti. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

The slab and light

Interdisciplinary Mendini

Just a bit of Dorfles

Rassegna: Outdoors

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

El Topo: Paola Pivi

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