Domus No. 934 (March 2010)

The latest issue of Domus is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

STREAMS

• News, events, competitions, projects / edited by Elena Sommariva

ARCHITECTURE

• A Solid Garden The Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne does not alter the landscape with its form: it is part of it / design: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa; text: Flavio Albanese; photos: Iwan Baan
• Container Medical Compound, Khartoum In Sudan, old containers have been converted into living units: a reference to the project's ethical value / design: Tamassociati with Pietro Parrino, Gino Strada; text: Raul Pantaleo; photos: Yard Photo, Raul Pantaleo
• Casa Come Noi The archetype of the suburban house as an ironic view of bourgeois living / design: Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen; text: Stefano Casciani; photos: Cristobal Palma
• Roof House, Shiga Primordial thought and nature resonate in the house with many roofs that culminate in a tree / design: Terunobu Fujimori + Hiroshi Nakatani; text: Salvator-John Liotta; photos: Alessio Guarino
• Social Housing for the Elderly, Barcelona An architecture rooted in the Mediterranean tradition / design: Sergi Serrat, Ginés Egea, Cristina Garcia; text: Laura Bossi; photos: Adrià Goula, Ferran Nadeu
• Pittman Dowell Residence, Los Angeles A critical alternative to the romantic notion of modernism / design: Michael Maltzan; text: David van der Leer; photos: Iwan Baan
• Korean Buddhist Cultural Center, Gongju, South Korea Emptiness becomes the essence of timeless architecture / design: Seung H-Sang, Iroje Architects & Planners; text: Hyungmin Pai; photos: Kim Jong-Oh
• Airport, Lleida-Alguaire In northern Spain, west of Barcelona, Lleida's new airport opts to blend in with the landscape / design: Fermin Vázquez - B720 Arquitectos; text: Anatxu Zabalbeascoa; photos: Filippo Poli

INTERIORS

• Villa Poletti, Lanzo D'Intelvi Nicola De Ponti sets up a dialogue between the structure of a villa designed by Sommaruga and the contemporary needs of four clients / design: Nicola De Ponti - Astori De Ponti Associati; text: Cecilia Fabiani; photos: Matteo Cirenei

WEB

• Top Ten Sensors Ten of last year's most interesting, lively and curious contributions from domusweb's "antennae" / design, photos: Domenico Cogliandro, Juarez Corso, Maria Cristina de Benedetti, Emilia Antonia de Vivo, Mariana Eggers, Meltem Eti Proto, Mattia Gambardella, Marina Grasso, Sergei Jargin, Nora Vargas; edited by Elena Sommariva

DESIGN

• The Custodians of the Children's Hospital A group of animal sculptures made of rattan welcomes children to the paediatric clinic built by Emergency in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic / design: Tamassociati/Raul Pantaleo-Massimo Lepore-Simone Sfriso, Francis Gbongo; text: Francesca Picchi; photos: Raul Pantaleo
• Design Elementare Design by Normal Studio has never been a gratuitous gesture / design: Jean-François Dingjian & Eloi Chafaï; text: Maria Cristina Tommasini; photos: Morgane Le Gall, Normal Studio
• Young Design Report 5 Design and self-production: an almost compulsory route for young designers / design: Anja Eder & Michael Römer, Elisa Fouin; text: Maria Cristina Tommasini; photos: Patricia Eichert, Elise Fouin, Christopher Young

ART

• In Absentia Rome plays host to the metaphysical spaces of Philip Wiegard, the talented sculptor of furniture and objects that evoke ephemeral atmospheres / design: Philip Wiegard; text: Xavier Laboulbenne
• Things That Vanish The total work according to Seth Price. Eternally balanced between present symbol and meaning / design: Seth Price; text: Vincenzo Latronico
• Gabriel Kuri: Special Art Section Six ideas, six stories, six objects / text: Dieter Roelstraete

INTERSECTIONS

• An overview of work by young architects uncovers the up-and-coming forces in architecture: Plan:b/Medellín, Atelier Kempe Thill/Rotterdam, Suppose Design Office/Hiroshima, Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos/Buenos Aires, MOS/New York / graphic design: ONLAB; edited by Francesca Picchi; texts: Francesca Picci, Felipe Mesa/Plan:b, André Kempe, Oliver Thill/Atelier Kempe Thill, Julian Worrall, Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden/Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample/MOS

ARCHIVES

• Control and Choice Archigram's environmental proposal for the Paris Biennale in 1967 / text: Luigi Spinelli; photos: Archivi Domus

HIGHLIGHTS

• Less is Future, The IBA Stadtumbau 2010

BOOKS

RASSEGNA

• Edilizia Solutions that respect the environment / edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini