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Current Issue:
Domus 955
Cover
Tahir Ali, construction worker in Dharavi, is a member of the category defined by URBZ as “city builders”. URBZ suggests that self-organisational strategies, combined with the knowledge of workers such as Tahir, can be more effective than housing programmes. Photo by Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi
Editorial: Home-grown homes
Every home tells a story—its
making and its use, the way its
dwellers have shaped it over time, the
moments they lived inside, what it
used to be, what it may become. Text by Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, Urbz
Op–ed: Goodbye Sori Yanagi
Jasper Morrison
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay: LA Look
Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi
The engineer, the gardener
and the architect
In the project by Tatiana Bilbao S.C a botanical garden provides an ideal way to bring
contemporary art out of the silent rooms of museums and closer to the people of Culiacán, Mexico. Text by Alejandro Hernández Gálvez. Photos by Iwan Baan. Edited by Laura Bossi.
A city within a city
The Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos converts part of
Madrid’s former slaughterhouse into an experimental
centre for the production and performance of
contemporary music. Text by Ariadna Cantis. Photos by Luis Díaz Díaz, Miguel de Guzmán. Edited by Laura Bossi
A forest of polyhedrons
A world-famous singer, Shakira, and a young Bogotá architect,
Giancarlo Mazzanti, join forces to bring a new sports centre to one of Colombia’s poorest
urban settlements. Text by Lorenza Baroncelli. Photos by Jorge Gamboa. Edited by Laura Bossi
Crowdsourcing
the city
Rahul Srivastava and Matias Sendoa Echanove believe that the best way
to improve the future of cities is to empower their inhabitants through design. Text by Joseph Grima. Photos by Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
The unexpected
side of objects
For Zurich-based duo Kueng Caputo
reality is a palette to be sampled
and recombined, producing gracefully
conceptual works of design. Text by Francesca Picchi
Domesticated brutalism
A new table by Lucidi Pevere Design Studio. Text by Chiara Alessi. Photos by Delfino Sisto
Legnani. Edited by Francesca Picchi
Last stop: Avtobusniki
In a village near Moscow built to house the employees of a public transport company, decommissioned Ikarus 280 buses, legendary mainstays of Soviet public transportation, find a new life as impromptu architectural prostheses. Text by Sergei Kulikov. Photos by Alexei Naroditsky. Edited by Laura Bossi
The importance of being
axonometric
Information Design has become crucially, Michael Stoll, a university teacher and collector, explains to Elisa Pasqual and Marco Ferrari the basic principles and the vast scale of this discipline. Interview by Elisa Pasqual, Marco Ferrari. Edited by Laura Bossi
Network: Vennesla Library, Norway
Einar Bjarki Malmquist
visited the cultural centre,
by Helen & Hard, balanced
between sophistication
and simplicity
States of Design 10: Social design
The dedication with which architects and designers strive to achieve even small improvements in living conditions opens up new perspectives not only for design, but also for politics and the management of public and private sectors. Text by Paola Antonelli. Edited by Francesca Picchi
A Letter from Any Ever
The worlds of Ryan Trecartin,Elad Lassry and Kerstin Brätsch. Hyper-artificial,
phantasmic and exposed to an over-stimulation of colours and sounds, they
feature lives that are played out within an increasingly invasive digital dimension
Text by Massimiliano Gioni. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Network: The Legacy Plan
Sonic landscapes
and unexpected perspectives
as a final homage
to Merce Cunningham.
Mimi Zeiger reports
Unpacking my library: Eva Franch i Gilabert
The literary diet of Eva Franch, director
of Storefront for Art and Architecture,
is almost as diverse as her legendary
wardrobe—which is largely the product
of her own sartorial prowess. Interview by Gianluigi Ricuperati. Photos by Yoo Jean Han. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Rassegna: Bathroom
Edited by Francesca Picchi
Panorama
Edited by Guido Musante
Horoscope: Aquarius
Text by Dan Graham and Jessica Russel. Edited by Elena Sommariva