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Current Issue:
Domus 957
Cover
These interconnections that
look like seductive natural
forms are actually sophisticated
details of the Multithread
system, developed through a
software application created
by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram. Photo Tom Vack
Editorial: The future is now
Op–ed: How I lost my shoes
Johan van Lengen
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay: The Monument Upside Down
Sevgi Ortaç
Oriented patterns
Höweler+Yoon, which grew up in
the critical concreteness of American schools in the late
1990s, proposes an innovative way to draw on artisan
construction practices. Test by Mimi Zeiger. Photos by
Yihuai Hu, Höweler+Yoon Architecture
The Future in the Making: The Kickstarter revolution
Could Kickstarter
transform the design industry as we know it? Text by Joseph Grima. Photos by Ramak Fazel,
Michelle Litvin,
Delfino Sisto Legnani. Infographics
Simone TrottiEdited by Loredana Mascheroni
Robotic Autoprogettazione
Using a repurposed industrial robot that melts plastic obtained from recycled fridge components, Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij has created a micro-industry capable of producing 4,000 units per year. Text by Loredana Mascheroni. Photos by Delfino Sisto Legnani
Force feedback
Two new projects by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram presented at this year's Fuorisalone, the R18 Ultra Chair Public Beta and Multithread, explore the intersections of furniture design. Photos by Tom Vack. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Salone del Mobile 2012:
Countdown
On the eve of Milan’s great event, Domus
offers a photographic preview of some forthcoming
pieces by workshops of Italian production. Photos by Ramak Fazel,
Delfino Sisto Legnani. Texts by Loredana Mascheroni, Roberto Zancan
Network: BLKB Bank
House Turtle
On the coast of Ghana, Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach have teamed
up to create a visionary experiment that straddles architecture, art and
technology. Text by Caroline Corbetta. Photos by Attilio Maranzano. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Monsoon House
Realised by Studio Mumbai, this country house
is an elegant refuge immersed in a mango wood, but also a fortress against
the intensity of tropical storms. Text by
Radhika Desai. Photos by
Hélène Binet. Edited by Laura Bossi
Stellar perspectives
Corrado Levi conceived his own furnishings for his new apartment,
turning to a team of builders to manufacture them. Text by Michele Calzavara. Photos by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Post-Disaster Design: Shelters for all
The acronym kisyn unites five renowned Japanese architects—Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima,
Riken Yamamoto and Hiroshi Naito—who have placed their bond of friendship at the service of posttsunami
reconstruction. Text by Julian Worrall. Edited by Laura Bossi
Post-Disaster Design: Back to earth
In Ma’anqiao, the 2008 earthquake destroyed 263 out of 272 houses. Today, this remote Sichuan village has become a workshop of design
experimentation. Texts by Jun Mu,
Edward Ng,
Tiegang Zhou,
Li Wan. Edited by Laura Bossi
Network: IM Blanky
Developed by Studio NMinusOne, this is a self modeling blanket exhibiting primitive cognitive skills
The planned design
of socialism
The archive of photographer Reinhard
Mende, who between 1967 and 1990 extensively documented East German manufacturing, highlights the relationship between
objects and the people who made them. Text by Philip Ursprung. Photos by
Reinhard Mende. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
The Machine Civilisation
Amid the tortuous motion of hydraulic mechanisms, and the first fantasies of post-human machines, perhaps we can find a key to
understanding the myths that lurk behind our smartphones and our image society? Text by Massimiliano Gioni. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Unpacking my library: Marva Griffin Wilshire
Deeply attached to her Venezuelan
origins, Marva Griffin, curator of the Salone Satellite, has a predilection for South American writers and biographiesInterview by Gianluigi Ricuperati. Photo by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Rassegna: Furniture
Edited by Laura Bossi
Panorama
Edited by Guido Musante
Cold Case: Sendai Mediatheque. A store of communication
On 11 March a decade later its first publication in Domus, a
devastating earthquake confirmed
the Toyo Ito building’s qualities of elasticity
and adaptability to seismic movements of the earth. Edited by Luigi Spinelli