Editorial. Domus 1024
On Domus May 2018 issue, director Michele De Lucchi writes about distance as a key factor in defining projects and their harmonious integration into the landscape.
In this issue
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Cover illustration: The Blue Chemist
Archaeology. Meditation over time
The stone eating worm
“Between the conception and the creation between the emotion and the response
falls the shadow.” Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925. Edited by Adam Lowe & Charlotte Skene Catling
Portfolio
Mishka Henner, Turbines
Mishka Henner tells how industry has shaped the American landscape
Anthropology. Objects & Beheaviour
Difficult relationships between maps and the landscape
The landscape is everything a map fails to grasp of the world and to express in terms of the separation between subject and object, placing some distance between them. Text by Franco Farinelli
Studio visit
Mokuchi Woodworking
In just a few square metres, Mokuchi has organised the studio around a large central empty space, its only permanent feature being a traditional Japanese carpenter’s workshop. Edited by Andrea Caputo
Institution
Manifesta 12, Palazzo Butera. Europe and the Mediterranean.
Palermo, Italian Capital of Culture 2018, inaugurates Manifesta 12. Venues include Palazzo Butera, a new institution committed to researching knowledge. Edited by Paola Nicolin
Archive
A mental landscape
The FRAC in Orléans uncovers extracts from its latest acquisition: Patrick Bouchain’s complete archive. Text by Luca Galofaro
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Essay
Plant nation. Stefano Mancuso, Cristiana Favretto e Antonio Girardi
The plant world plays an active part in monitoring and controlling the environment of smart cities
Landscape
Landscapes express the history, civilisation, experience and ambitions of a society and its culture
Urban Landscape
Hudson Yards, West Side, New York City
The most impressive real estate redevelopment in US history consists in the transformation of 11 hectares of working railway yards into a completely different landscape
Museum Landscape
Maki and Associates. Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen
Combining a museum and shopping centre, Sea World Culture and Arts Center is a dynamic composition of strictly white architectural volumes set in a seafront park. Photos by Maki and Associates
Domestic Landscape
Elemental, Ochoquebradas house, Los Vilos, Chile
A completely unexpected authorial work by Studio Elemental, recognised for its social commitment. Photos by Olga Surogina, Alejandro Aravena
Architecture
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Enoura Observatory, Japan
The Japanese artist has built a large complex wholly out of ancient recovered building materials, to preserve and disseminate his country’s rich cultural tradition
Immaterial Landscape
Sissel Toolas in conversation with Formafantasma. The smell of the oceans
With Ocean SmellScape, the artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas collects samples of smell molecules from oceans, because the world is never what we see
Family landscape
Schloss Hollenegg. The living legacy
A project that begins from a family’s archives, acts upon the landscape of the castle and restores an object, intended to last over time. Text by Annalisa Rosso
Sculptural landscape
Fabio Castelli, Small tales carved in wood.
Castelli sculpts landscapes in wood to recount the tales he chooses not to write. Photos by Bea De Giacomo
Cultural landscape
Agadir, for example
In conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen, the artist Yto Barrada discusses Morocco’s sociopolitical landscape. Photos Giovanna Silva
Natural landscape
Arte Sella. Cultivating art
Taking care of a place is a courageous and revolutionary act. In Val di Sella, contemporary art creates a way of living together with nature and, by extension, with the world. Text by Emanuele Montibeller
Natural landscape
Tippet Rise Art Centre. Boundless landscape
Scattered around 10,000 acres of ranch land, eight artworks create a synthesis between architectural, cosmic and musical order. Text by Francesca Cigola
TV Series
A mining town the Wild West where women rule the roost
A village in the New Mexico desert provides the backdrop for seven episodes of Godless and is the largest Western film-set ever built. Edited by Keren Cytter
Cinema
What landscape will live on, after us?
Antigone is Tacita Dean’s latest experimental film, a reflection on the natural and cultural landscape. Edited by Piero Golia
On the couch
“The Mediterranean”, argues Bonini, “remains the sole bulwark against the aggressive lifestyles of the new oil theocracies”. Edited by Walter Mariotti
Meteorology
How climate concerns are forging new bonds between architecture and philosophy
The climate is driving a new dialogue between architecture and the human sciences. Edited by Philippe Rahm
Travel
A secret agent in Bangkok
Six wooden huts stand in the heart of the Thai capital. Tracked down in the 1950s and 1960s by Jim Thompson on his travels, they were dismantled and reconstructed to try and preserve what was being lost. Text and photos by Cecilia Fumagalli, Emilio Mossa
Rassegna
How to design lightscapes
Can light transform a space into a place? We asked Elettra Bordonaro, the lighting designer who led the three-year research programme Social Lightscapes Workshop Series. Edited by Giulia Guzzini
Auction
In her book Schermi di luce (Rizzoli), Julie Sloan writes that Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 4,000 windows for approximately 150 of his buildings. No one better than he could transform leaded glass into architecture