Current Issue: Domus 963

Cover

Designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, this issue’s cover makes reference to the relationship between facia and facade, and to the process of ruination, stratification, negation and revelation that continuously occurs in architecture

Editorial: Prospective/Retrospective

Frida Escobedo

Op–Ed: Our very own Pussy Riot

Journal

Edited by Elena Sommariva

Photoessay

Corpi di Reato (“Corpora Delicti”). Tommaso Bonaventura, Alessandro Imbriaco

An empathetic twist

Matthew Allen argues that through a series of astute formal moves, and by evoking empathy, Chinese architecture practice MAD has achieved a rare breakthrough in the edge city of Mississauga. Design MAD Architects. Text Matthew Allen. Photos Tom Arban, Morris Lum

Modernist masks

Wrapped in its enigmatic texture, the home/studio at Cuernavaca, where the Mexican muralist Alfaro Siqueiros lived during the last ten years of his life, is now the core of a new museum and cultural production centre. Design Frida Escobedo. Text José Esparza. Photos Rafael Gamo

A city in becoming

In the Mexican city of Oaxaca, a monastery re-emerges from 6,000 tons of rubble to begin a new life as a foundation and cultural centre for the city. Design Taller de Arquitectura, Mauricio Rocha. Text Jose Castillo. Photos Luis Gordoa

The memory of landscapes

Marco Belpoliti examines the wounds—many of them invisible—inflicted on the Italian landscape by the Mafia. Text Marco Belpoliti. Photos Tommaso Bonaventura, Alessandro Imbriaco. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Flávio de Carvalho. The total aesthete

Italian artist Paola Anziché travels to Valinhos, Brazil, to reconstruct the brave, and highly aestheticised, world of Brazilian artist Flávio de Carvalho. Text Paola Anziché. Photos Nelson Kon. Edited by Laura Bossi

Network: Z33 extension

A subtle and tactile use of brick in the winning proposal for the Z33 extension, designed by Francesca Torzo, Aldo Bakker and Piet Oudolf

The geopolitics of subtraction

Yasuní National Park is arguably the most biologically diverse spot on Earth. It also happens to be home to unexploited reserves of 846 million barrels of oil. Text Keller Easterling. Photos Santiago del Hierro, Gabriel Moyer-Perez. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Process is toast

Starting from complementary design strategies, two young graduates question the process of industrial production to create a new family of tools and electrical appliances. Design Jesse Howard, Gaspard Tiné-Berès. Text Tamar Shafrir. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Design your life

Brendan McGetrick pays Wurman a visit in his Rhode Island abode, and distills from their conversation the seven secrets of a “Highly Effective Person”. Text Brendan McGetrick. Photos Yoo Jean Han. Edited by Laura Bossi

Strength in numbers

Maria Cristina Didero profiles three design studios built around teamwork and networks. Text Maria Cristina Didero. Photos Richard Nicholson, Johan Ödmann. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Network: Axor Starck Organic

Low water consumption and a sculptural, organic and minimalist design characterise the new collection of taps by Starck for Axor

Fitness by design

Can data heal? Yes, argues Dan Hon, whose type 2 diabetes spurred him to embrace “personal informatics” devices such as the Nike FuelBand and the Fitbit. Text Dan Hon. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Rassegna

Finishes. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Panorama

Edited by Guido Musante

Cold Case

23 De Enero. Occupied space. Edited by Luigi Spinelli