This issue of Domus is entitled “Fashion is urbanism”. Winy Maas reminds in his editorial that everybody has the responsibility to contribute to a sustainable future and that small-scale actions can have as much impact as large-scale ones. Fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how fashion meets urbanism, discussing the encounter of fashion, architecture, nature and technology. The future city products are presented in the article “Design is alive”: amongs the projects in which the potential of nature is revealed, Biogarmentry by Roya Aghighi is a living textile capable of purifying the air with its photosynthetic cells.
Domus 1038 on newsstands: “Fashion is urbanism”
Fashion and urbanism, oil Palm plantations, the project proposals for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame. Browse the gallery and discover the contents of the September issue.
Text Adrien Ravon. Photo Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Text Jan Boelen. Photo © Mogu/Radical by Nature
Photo Roya Aghighi
Text Denise Piccinini. Photo Jeroen Musch
Text Géraud Bablon, Timothy Ravis, Benjamin Notkin RuiSu. Photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy of Admira Photography, Milan/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Text Klaus Englert. Photo Luca Girardini
Text Pippo Ciorra. Photo Ed Reeve
Text Rory Stott. Photo Veronique de Viguerie
Text Fanny Léglise. Photo Vincent Fillon
Text Javier Arpa. Photo Frédéric Achdou
Text Javier Arpa. Photo Ralf Hirschberger/Picture alliance via Getty Images
Text Oliver von Spreckelsen. Image © Tobias List & Floriana Jaritz
Text Nasrine Seraji. Project by Hagai Ben Niam
Director William Hanna, Joseph Barbera. Production company Hanna-Barbera Productions. Year 1990
Text, research infographics Alessandro Frigerio, Simona Galateo. Photo Victor Virgile/Gamma Rapho via Getty Images
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Curated by Raffaele Vertaldi. Photo © Yan Wang Preston. Egongyan Park, Chongqing, China (2017), from the series Forest (2010-2017)
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- 02 September 2019
The article on Oil Palm plantations, that are transforming lanscape and causing damage to the environment and rural communities, reflects on the ecological violence behind the food we eat. The issue of Domus discusses about the fire of Notre-Dame, showing some of the debated projects proposals made for the reconstruction of the Parisian Cathedral.
The interview with Gaëlle Hamonic and Jean-Christophe Masson talks about the city of the future: compact, dense and integrated with nature. Another example can be found in The Jetsons, the animated sitcom that imagined a future with flying cars, jatpacks, robot maids and moving sidewalks.
In the issue it’s explained why migration can be a catalyst for the housing problem, with an analysis of German cities and their transformation to integrate refugees. At the end of the issue, a photo by Yan Wang Preston of the Egongyan Park, in China, from the series Forest.
With the magazine are attached Domus EcoWorld, The UN global goals in practice and Domus paper.
The work of the Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen seeks a new gialogue netween fashion, architecture, nature and technology.
By building new alliances with biology, design is startng to shape the macro-scale of the urban environment.
Biogarmentry by Roya Aghighi is a living textile capable of purifying the air with its photosynthetic cells.
A purposeful search for the unexpected and craft skills are staples of Anouk Vogel’s work.
The exponential increase in the production of palm oil is causing grave damage to the environment and rural communities in areas of cultivation.
With the elegant colonnaded pavillion by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, the master plan for Berlin’s Museum Island reaches completion 20 years after its formulation.
Sugar Hill is a small realised utopia, a potential model for new forms of welfare.
Replicate the past or think of the future? The fire of the Parisian Cathedral has sparked an online debate.
The ZACs are a planning instrument embodying the tranasition from collage city to bricolage city.
The city of the future? Compact, dense, integrated with nature, it should mantain a specific identity and be people-centred.
Construction of Berlin’s megaproject has become a captivating saga of mismanagement.
How are German cities being transformed to welcime and integrate refugees effectively?
A new type of architecture school is gaining ground, a school of reflection that works on the web creating “new newness” and èroducing critical observations of the city through original modes of representation. The projects by the five students presented here reveal the breadth of reflection on the landscape and the city under way today.
The success og the economic model has made fashion weeks a must for every city.
The luxuriant world of nature features in the new design for digital decoration on ABK’s large ceramic tiles.
Published by Hatje Cantz and winner of the “Landscape” category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2019, the series will be on show in Liverpool from 17.10 to 21.12.2019 during the Look Photo Biennial.