Current Issue: Domus 898

Cover. Herman Wallace

The dream house of a prisoner in solitary confinement

Editorial. Orhan Pamuk. Istanbul as a self-portrait

Hans Ulrich Obrist in a conversation with Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk

Almanac. News and events

Edited by Elena Sommariva

Ettore Sottsass

Pictures from a window

An evening with the Ladies of Design

Milan, October 2006, showroom De Padova: a dinner party for five protagonists of Italian design

Sami Rintala. We are here because we are not quite there, yet

Sami Rintala’s architecture as a place for contemplating the power of landscape. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Interview by Rachaporn Choochuey, Stefano Mirti. Photography by Sami Rintala, Jan Erik Svendsen

Zaha Hadid. Knowledge is power

Zaha Hadid has turned Maggie Keswick Jencks’s visions into reality in Fife, Scotland. Text by Deyan Sudjic. Photography by Gaia Cambiaggi. Edited by Laura Bossi

The diagonal skin

Four different versions of diagonal grid outer shells and why they may be compared. Text by Alessandro Rocca. Photography by Klaus Frahm, Alessio Guarino, Atelier Manferdini, Peter Mauss/ESTO. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show 2006. Germs of new design

Student’s graduation projects. Text by Louise Schouwenberg. Edited by Francesca Picchi

Steven Holl. Incredible Holl

The new horizontal skyscraper by Steven Holl in Shenzhen. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Cesare Colombo. Display Set

Milan, a journey through some moments at trade fairs of the last 50 years

Hram Svetog Save. The concrete cathedral

In Belgrade, the world’s largest orthodox church. Text by Pier Paolo Tamburelli. Photography by Giovanna Silva. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Lightness without tectonics

A text by Guilherme Wisnik and a graphic novel by Jochen Gerner to celebrate the 99th birthday of Oscar Niemeyer. Edited by Laura Bossi

The house that Herman built

Herman Wallace, a prisoner in solitary confinement at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana, tells how the chance to imagine spaces may help to resist. Edited by Fabrizio Gallanti, Loredana Mascheroni

Jean-François Chevrier. The Nostalgia of the Salons

The diffused pictoriality of modern life

Nils Holger Moormann. Life in the woods

A tool shed and a dwelling module for immersion in nature. Photography by Olaf Jäger. Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Jaime Hayon. Shop for walkers

Domus continues its reflections on the “interiorisation” of metropolitan space with an interior by Jaime Hayon. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Nienke Klumder

Pierluigi Cerri. TBVS Triennale Bovisa

A temporary facility to highlight the district-symbol of Milanese industrial growth. Text by Pierluigi Cerri. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Marco Belpoliti. A Compasso d’Oro for Ivar

A provocative proposal

Hyper Design

Excerpts from the 6th Shanghai Biennial. Text by Zhang Qing. Photography by Lu Heng Zhong, Shanghai Biennial. Edited by Qin Lei

Tarzan&Jane: Urs Fischer - Annette Messager. Fables

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

Libri

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Rassegna: Technologies

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini. Art graft by Yona Friedman

Panorama

Edited by Francesca Cogni

Material World: Zeolites

Edited by Emanuele Ricci