Germany

July–August

Domus Germany July 2015
Our latest issue is devoted to the Old Masters, including three Pritzker prize winners.

As such, we present Koolhaas’ building for the Fondazione Prada in Milan, corporate headquarters designed by Álvaro Siza in China and a refined fashion statement made by Herzog & de Meuron in Tokyo. Moreover, the latest issue documents historical projects with a lasting charm that have proved to be exemplary in several respects. Charlotte Perriand’s Maison au bord de l’eau, Nanda Vigo’s psychedelic 1970s interior for a villa in Brianza and Alberto Ponis’ 1979 Casa Scalesciani on Sardinia demonstrate that good architecture can be timeless as long as it has a clearly defined goal and as long as it pursues this goal.

In the design section, we take up the issue of role models. In an interview, Franco Clivio recommends simply forgetting about them. Ten internationally renowned designers including Alessandro Mendini and Alberto Meda remember the first steps of their professional career as well as their preferences and models in their first years of study. They also share photographs, books and watercolours to document their experiences.

Whoever grapples with the Old Masters eventually also has to grapple with him- or herself. This at least is the principal idea behind Thomas Bernhard’s novel “Old Masters”: for more than 30 years, its protagonist has visited the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts) in Vienna every other day except Mondays to look at the same Tintoretto painting and find flaws within it. Yet his gaze eventually reveals more about himself than about Tintoretto. The question of models and examples and the old masters certainly also remains a generational question, which conceals a great amount of self-knowledge.

Domus Germany, July–August 2015, cover
Domus Germany 014, July–August 2015, cover

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