– Manifesta 12: Palermo told in 10 articles. The Sicilian city is the epicenter of the Mediterranean and of the international cultural debate. Discover the best stories on domusweb with interviews, insights, archival articles and photographic surveys.
– Prairie House: marvel of American organic architecture opened as a holiday retreat. One of lesser known icons of American modernism, Prairie house by Herb Greene, was renovated to its former glory and opened for architecture nomads to stay in.
– Design Parade 2018. Hyères (Villa Noailles) and Toulon are jointly staging this design and interior architecture event – an appointment with emerging talents and mentors of the calibre of Philippe Malouin and Pierre Yovanovitch.
Best of July: 10 stories not to miss
Organic architecture, Venice Biennale and Manifesta, design exhibitions and cinema. A selection of July’s best stories.
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- 04 August 2018
– The architecture of millennials. Interview with Phineas Harper, critic and curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale, on the millenials’ answers to the economic crisis, which have created a utopia of reality.
– The Killing of a Sacred Deer: the ruthless symmetries of a contemporary tragedy. A restricted set of physical locations and an unsettling, geometric atmosphere set the stage for a tragedy with elements of the supernatural, the winner of the best screenplay prize at Cannes.
– Sagmeister and Walsh: the humanity of beauty. On display at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, the first retrospective of the New York firm Sagmeister & Walsh is an invitation to look for beauty in everyday objects.
– In Statu Quo: A balancing force for political mediation. The Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale analyses an invisible but powerful negotiation structure that lays beneath sacred sites in the Holy Land.
– Denmark. Tactile surfaces reinventing tradition. Dorte Mandrup’s extension of the Wadden Sea Centre pays homage to the local craftsman tradition of the water reed cladding.
– Laura Lima. The last slight agitation at Fondazione Prada. The Brazilian artist completed a series of interventions inside the Cisterna’s spaces in Fondazione Prada, selected in the name of a Slight Agitation.
– Paris. Studio Drift puts wings in the catwalk. At the Paris Fashion Week, the designer duo collaborates with Iris Van Herpen in order to represent the human possibility of flying.