Current Issue: Domus 897

Cover

Homage to Alan Fletcher

Editorial. Luca Doninelli. The Millimetres project

01. The dawn of degradation. Chronicle of a morning walk through Milan

Ettore Sottsass

Pictures from a window

Enzo Mari. Playing with Living

London, September 2006, Serpentine Gallery: Enzo Mari exhibits the card game about living, recently re-issued

SANAA Glass Pavilion Toledo

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s pavilion in Toledo, Ohio, celebrates transparency in America’s former glass-making capital. Photography by Domingo Milella. Edited by Joseph Grima

OMA. Chromatic circulation

In OMA’s conversion of the Zollverein coal-washing plant, a glowing staircase channels visitors along the same route once taken by the coal. Photography by Thomas Mayer. Edited by Joseph Grima

Marc Augé. The power of the architect

Architecture, popular art

Andrea Branzi. The Visceral Revolution

Two interiors designed by Fabio Novembre and Tokujin Yoshioka provide an opportunity to reflect on the “interiorisation” of metropolitan space. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Alberto Ferrero

Richard Rogers and light

Richard Rogers applies the theme of iridescence and marine bioluminosity to the scale of the technical object. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Reggiani/RRP

Gianni and Gio, brilliant swordsmen

Gianni Mazzocchi, the great journalist-publisher who founded Editoriale Domus and conceived important Italian postwar publications, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on 11 November. Lisa Ponti, Gio’s daughter, remembers him

The art of looking

The world of design remembers Alan Fletcher. A celebration of the talent and poetic view of this exceptional master of visual communication. Texts by Richard Hollis, Emily King. Edited by Elena Sommariva

Kounellis. One act

The Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan: the spectacular installations by Jannis Kounellis have become a movie by Ermanno Olmi, whose microphone and TV camera filmed the artist while dealing with works and spaces. Text by Lea Vergine. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Manuel DeLanda. High Intensity Environments

Technical ceramics as a substitute for strategic and critical raw materials

Clip Stamp Fold. The Architecture of Little Magazines 196x-197x

On 14 November, New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture inaugurates an exhibition curated by Beatriz Colomina exploring the history of independent architectural publications of the Sixties and Seventies. Domus presents a preview of the research on the year 1973

Jean Baudrillard. Architecture and the void, art and life

In an interview with Serhan Ada in Istanbul, the French sociologist discusses some topics that are close to his heart, starting with his words on the World Trade Center before September 11. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni. Photography by Emre Akay

Tarzan&Jane: Rineke Dijkstra - Thomas Demand. Truth

An encounter between two artists. Tarzan&Jane is a project made for Domus by Wrong Gallery

Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Rassegna: Finishes

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

Edited by Francesca Cogni

Material World: Variable-focus lenses

Edited by Emanuele Ricci

Enclosed

Homage to Vico Magistretti