Editorial. Domus 1026
In the July/August issue Michele De Lucchi talks about eros in a broad sense: the best state of mind to establish contact with humanity.
In this issue
Domus 1026
Cover illustration: The Blue Chemist
Archaeology
Eros and the goblet of milk
A world of fragile parts: from breast to bone to glass. Edited by Adam Lowe &
Charlotte Skene Catling
Portfolio
Ross Lovegrove, Corolised chair
“The dialogue between form, technology and material is in a constant state of interplay in my studio and much is never shared with the outside world...”
Anthropology
The intermediation in complex systems
It is as if a monster entered the city… and ate its way through it. Text by Saskia Sassen
Studio visit
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
Pritzker Prize-winner’s Sangath office in Ahmedabad is an open place permanently connected to the world, the environment and other people. Edited by Andrea Caputo
Institution
How can I not think of you, in Marrakesh?
A love, a project, an institution: what is the public role of 20th-century icons? Edited by Paola Nicolin
Archive
A modern material
In 1936 Franco Albini launched the application of foam rubber for modern seating Text by Giampiero Bosoni
Eros
Passion. Seduction
The forms of the human body and the plant world as a source of inspiration for many architects. Text by Michele De Lucchi
Essay
What do we do in bed today, and what has become of this horizontal architecture in our liquid-work society? Text by Beatriz Colomina
Architecture
MAD Architects. Sensual, organic, artificial
The Harbin Opera House, a row of skyscrapers in Nanjing and two small steel bubbles over the roof of a Beijing hutong: mixing part-organic and partneoparametric curvilinear forms, three recent projects by MAD invoke terms such as “sensual” and “sinuous”.
Architecture
Structures as light as air
Inflatable constructions are efficient, lightweight, strong, ecological and safe, introducing a high-tech yet playful, rounded and sensual architectural language. Text by Maurizio Milan
Architecture
Dante Bini, La Cupola. Costa Paradiso, Sardinia
In 1968 Dante Bini met Monica Vitti and Michelangelo Antonioni, leading to the story of an architectural rarity. Text by Giulia Ricci
Architecture
The legacy of Zaha Hadid
From the explosive fragmentation of sharp, pointed forms to the organic and
enveloping curves of her later works: an unpredictable path spawned by the gestural expressiveness of drawing. Text by Pippo Ciorra
Architecture
Shigeru Ban Architects Europe & Jean de Gastines Architectes, La Seine Musicale, Paris
The large glass sphere rising above a low reinforced concrete volume is now the landmark of Île Seguin, once occupied by the Renault factories Text by Salvator-John A. Liotta Photos by Didier Boy de la Tour
For and against
Against disturbing architecture
The series of opinions on the theme of architecture-as-object, begun in Domus 1022, March 2018, continues with this brief yet highly incisive contribution by Adolfo Natalini
Design
Albo Cibic (In)complete. Trying to make sense of a changing world
An ever-changing coloured cloud represents a collective intelligence that mutates as the data accumulates. Text by Aldo Cibic
Design
I am Walter de Silva
Discipline, innovation and ethics. The dream of creating an icon. From Rodolfo Bonetto to Sergio. Interview by Paola Nicolin, photos by Tom Vack with Ester Pirotta
Art
Simone Fattal
Since the early 1970s, Simone Fattal and Etel Adnan have been committed to exploring together feminism, history, politics and freedom in books, paintings and sculptures – different forms of expression that influence each other. Text by Paola Nicolin, photos byJaimal Odedra
Cinema
Passion must be tamed like a wild beast
Chris Kraus’s feature film, a little-seen minimasterpiece, suggests that passion is not all: it allows us to sway between the extremes but is only one aspect of life. Edited by Piero Golia
Travel
Bombay Beach Biennale, Slab City and the Sonoran Desert
A place in California mixes a toxic lake, a self-managed community, an independent
art festival and Hollywood. Text by Marianna Guernieri