Current Issue: Domus 879

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Yona Friedman (1923, Budapest) has never stopped designing cities made up of unforeseen and astonishing architecture. In this world, he imagines thousands of individual spaces governed by a few rules shared by all. A non-deterministic vision of urbanism.

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva, Luigi Spinelli

Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari at the Grey Art Gallery

Conversation in the Cathedral

Yohji Yamamoto at Palazzo Pitti

Letter from Moscow

Ettore Sottsass. Pictures from a window

Kram/Weisshaar. Table genetics

Unique even though mass-produced: the office of Kram/Weisshaar has succeeded in programming a software capable of controlling the processes of breeding tables. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Text by Walter Aprile, Stefano Mirti. Photography by Florian Boehm

Bruno Latour. That obscure object of politics

Does transparency suit politics? A conversation between philosophers

Florian Beigel/Architecture Research Unit. In praise of emptiness

Four recent projects in South Korea. A research into the hybrid spaces of contemporary landscape. Edited by Joseph Grima. Photography by Jonathan Lovekin

Fuksas square

Studio Fuksas is developing four projects in Eindhoven. The one for 18 September Square will represent the most important part of the city’s main shopping district. Edited by Matteo Poli

Vesuvius emergency

Vesuvius is by no means extinct. In the coming decades a devastatingly violent eruption is expected to overwhelm the “red” zone on the slopes of the volcano, where more than 540,000 people currently live. Is a mass exodus envisaged? In this report Domus looks at some of the answers

The Overseas Exhibition

Three architects and an art historian chat while taking a walk in Naples around one of the largest modern architecture sites currently being restored. Edited by Rita Capezzuto. Photography by Francesco Jodice

Nader Khalili. Sandbag Shelters

A prototype for temporary housing that can be built quickly using inexpensive means

Cecil Balmond. After the tsunami

Ove Arup and the recostruction

Landscape of pleasure

Visita al set della sitcom urbana sul Fiume delle Perle in Cina A tour of the Pearl River Delta’s Light Urban Comedy. Edited by Kayoko Ota, Joseph Grima. Text by Hu Fang. Photography by Zeng Han

Yona Friedman. Ideas at large

Design suggestions open to development

Interview: William Katavolos

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews William Katavolos, a pioneer of chemical architecture. Edited by Thomas Boutoux, Loredana Mascheroni

Arakawa+Gins. Living bodies

Lisa Licitra Ponti reports on the volcanic projects by Arakawa and Gins. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

We need the below-ground

Paul Virilio and François Burkhardt talk about subterranean architecture and Hans Hollein’s design for the Museum in Salzburg, hollowed out of the mountain

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

The material of stone

The History of an urbanist

Ponti once again

The history of Mendelsohn

Rassegna: Building

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

El Topo: Diego Perrone

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