Issue 967 surveys the imperfect beauty of a social housing complex in the northern outskirts of Naples, which after 30 years serving as temporary housing is now replaced with a new architecture by Cherubino Gambardella. In Bolzano, a mountain house by MODUS effectively merges landscape, contemporary production and vernacular tradition; and in Milan, Boeri Studio's Art Incubator is a small building that has inherited the legacy of craftsmen workshops of the past.
In the March issue, Ute Meta Bauer and Pelin Tan interview Mary Otis Stevens about the many stages in her extraordinary life. Jonathan Olivares dissects The Art Genome Project, a powerful and flexible taxonomy that is enhancing the way we access and organise all the world's art and design, and in the newest SuperNormal feature, Rory Hyde visits "Chrome Web Lab", an exhibit that presents the invisible fabric of the Internet as embodied in the world.
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Cover
This painting is one of a series of 12 by Robert Suermondt, prompted by the documentary report of Belgian collective Rotor on the eco-goals pursued by the Leuven Town Council to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030. (photo by Philippe De Gobert)
Editorial: Really sustainable?
Domus interviews Rotor
Op–Ed: Modern monsters at the Taipei Biennial
Pelin Tan
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay
Roland Ultra. Giovanni Hänninen
An abode for Mediterranean culture
In Marseille, an enlightened political will has championed the realisation of an architecture built for the meeting of Mediterranean civilisations. Design Boeri Studio. Text Andrea Zanderigo. Photos Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Laura Bossi
Art beacon in the Mediterranean
The open-air gallery of Mangiabarche is a conceptual exercise in contemporary art-making that proves the latent potential of the Mediterranean territory. Design Beyond Entropy. Text Vera Sacchetti. Photos Beyond Entropy, Marco Lampis. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
Peak tectonics
A mountain house, which includes its owner's atelier, proposes a daring but successful symbiosis between landscape, contemporary production and the vernacular tradition of Trentino-Alto Adige. Design MODUS architects. Text Luciano Bolzoni. Photos Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi. Edited by Laura Bossi
Cultural condenser
A small building has inherited the legacy of the former Craftmen's Stecca workshops. The Art Incubator is a space for everyone, in the heart of the city's future tertiary districtDesign Boeri Studio. Text Andrea Zanderigo. Photos Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Laura Bossi
Imperfect beauty
Vitaliano Trevisan gives his impression of how the temporal dimension of a building's life needs integrating into the design process. Design Cherubino Gambardella. Text Vitaliano Trevisan. Photos Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi. Edited by Laura Bossi
Retooling history
Artsy, the online information platform, has created The Art Genome Project, a powerful and flexible taxonomy that is enhancing the way we access and organise all the world's art and design. Text Jonathan Olivares. Photos Yoo Jean Han. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Autonomy by design
Two new sets of furniture demonstrate design's potential to empower communities through self-production. Projects Alvaro Catalán de Ocón, Francesco Faccin. Text Loredana Mascheroni. Photos Filippo Romano, Studio Alvaro Catalán de Ocón. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Under the bonnet of the Internet
"Chrome Web Lab", an interactive exhibit at the London Science Museum, presents the invisible fabric of the Internet as embodied in the world. Text Rory Hyde. Edited by Rita Capezzuto
14 must per una Fuller Domus Academy
The vision, ambition and plans for the new Domus Academy—part of the LIU group—as explained by its new dean Gianluigi Ricuperati. Texts Gianluigi Ricuperati, Italo Rota. Photos Delfino Sisto Legnani. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Network: International Space Orchestra
With the help of Bruce Sterling and Damon Albarn, experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has assembled an orchestra from a group of NASA scientists. Text Nicola Bozzi
Mary Otis Stevens. The flux of human life
One of few women architects in America during the '60s and '70s Mary Otis Stevens tells Domus about the stages in her extraordinary life: the revolutionary Lincoln House, the years at MIT, the founding of i press series and its series on the human environment, and her more recent civil and cultural endeavours. Texts Pelin Tan, Ute Meta Bauer. Photos Yoo Jean Han. Edited by Elena Sommariva
The broken city
Francesca Recchia uncovers the traces of a conflict which, after centuries of peaceful coexistence, has profoundly transformed the architectural and urban identity of Srinagar, in Kashmir. Text Francesca Recchia. Photos George Kurian. Illustrations Malik Sajad. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
Review
Office. Edited by Giulia Guzzini
Panorama
Edited by Guido Musante
Cold Case
Metropolitana Milanese. Texts Luigi Spinelli, Pierfranco Galliani. Edited by Luigi Spinelli