Poverty is an extraordinary source of inspiration. It is an adversity, but it can turn into riches. Destitution, instead, offers no hope. It takes root physically and mentally and it only generates more destitution. Poverty can be invoked and become a choice. It has a great strength, because it spurns the superfluous. It separates the necessary from the useless, and it rejects excess, effrontery and luxury.
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The October 2018 issue is dedicated to Poverty, and features Alexander Brodsky, Kengo Kuma, Alejandro Aravena, Kéré Architecture, Mantra Architects and Liveinslums, among others.
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- La redazione di Domus
- 05 October 2018
- Milan
Archaeology. Facsimile of Griffoni Polyptych in the Chapel of Saint Vincent Ferrer, in the Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna. © Otto Lowe, Factum Foundation
Portfolio. Filippo Romano, Water tanks, Mathare
Studio Visit. Alexander Brodsky. Photo Andrea Caputo
Institution. Kengo Kuma, V&A Dundee. Photo Hufton + Crow
Economy. Photo Teresa Giannico
Archive. Sulphur concrete blocks, circa 1972. Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds Collection Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Dear Domus. Valerio Recchioni
Essay. Deyan Sudjic
Poverty. Zhang Lei (AZL Architects), Ruralation Shenaoli Library, Tonglu, Zhejiang Province, China, 2014-2015. Photo by Yao Li
Architecture. Kéré Architecture, Gando Library, Burkina Faso, 2010-ongoing
Architecture. Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, House in Modica, Italy, 2018. Photo Giulia Bruno
Architecture. Cherubino Gambardella, Vocational school, Kelle sur Mer, Senegal, 2017. Photo Nicola Tranquillo
Architecture. Matra Architects, Wood House, Satkol, Nanital, India, 2013. Edmund Sumner
Architecture. Elemental’s project for the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo in Buenos Aires. © Elemental
Architecture. Equipo Mazzanti, Marinilla Educational Park, Colombia, 2015. Photo Rodrigo Davila
Architecture. David Chipperfield, Architects Milan, SSENSE, Montreal, Canada, 2018. Photo Dominik Hodel
Essay. Paolo Gasparoli, Crisis is a time of great opportunity. Photo Gaia Cambiaggi
Design. Kristel Peters, Growing shoes. Photo © COJAK
Strategic design. Livingslum. Photo Francesco Giusti
Fashion. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons, oversize sweater from the Holes collection, 1982
Art. Francesco Arena, 92 centimetri su oggetti (la ringhiera di Pinelli). Photo Massimo Valicchia. Courtesy of the artist. Private collection
Best of. Photo Little Sisters of Jesus. © Andrea Büttner / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018
Cinema. Scenes from the film The Disappearance of Robin Hood. © ETH Zurich U-TT
On the couch. Massimo Bottura. lllustration Vincenzo De Cecco
Meteorology. Diagram by Philippe Rahm
Travel. Village in masonry at Ribta, north of Djibouti. Ilaria Bollati
Rassegna. Building Envelopes. Photo Andrea Jemolo
Auction. One of the 130 objects and furnishings designed by Dieter Rams
The projects published in this issue deal with the topic of Poverty through a variety of approaches and disciplines, from Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee to the two houses designed Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo in Modica. Public spaces and buildings such as the “mechanical animal” of Marinilla Educational Park in Antioquia by El Equipo Mazzanti, or Gando’s primary school and library by Kéré Architecture in Burkina Faso, are featured in the October issue.
The columns of Domus 1028 include “On the Couch” a conversation with the chef Massimo Bottura, while “Travel” brings us in Gibuti, “Cinema” narrates a movie on the social housing of Robin Hood Gardens in London, and aligns with the topics of the column “Archive,” curated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, on the relationship between building technology and housing through a sulphur concrete block. Cover image: illustration by The Blue Chemist