Monday, August 2, 2010

Domus No. 935 (July/August 2010)

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

Contents:
  • Shanghai 2010: the Expo that was too likeable.
  • Cube chases cube in the centre of Milan.
  • An urban forest for 21st-century art.
  • The museum as building site: small architectures at the V&A.
  • Triple Candie. More fake than real.
  • In Milan, a shelter conceived as a metallic/polychrome piece of origami.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: fom Fiesole to Taliesin.
  • Herzog & de Meuron go to the opera.
  • Piano in colour, a truly surprising result.
  • A stadium-talisman for the first world cup final held in Africa.
  • The animism of Paisajes Emergentes. The Colombian studio's magical architecture describes the search for a profound relationship with the unheeded manifestations of place, revealing the spaces that safeguard the invisible side of a landscape.
  • An architectural archipelago around an island in the Atlantic.
  • Green high tech "The possibility of lawns, trees and gardens living and developing on roofs has risen so sharply in recent times that there is no excuse at all by now for not having a hanging garden on your roof." -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Interior of interiors. Four "Intérieurs" derived from the mind not from the hand. Another way to see furnishings. A home must be able to contain our very lives, not just the objects in them.
  • Leonardo Ricci Fluid spaces looking for life. Reinjected into the architectural and painting studio at Monterinaldi is what Giovanni Klaus Koenig called "The spatial conformation of existence".
  • Interview -- Ideology's traitor A landsknecht-inspired art critic, a comedian of international art, high priest of totò worship, inventor of the transavantgarde and the director of a mandatory museum, Achille Bonito Oliva never tires of provocation, which he serves up from Italy to China with the elegance of a rhetorician and the desperation of a mannerist.
  • Pig Island and the shock of the west. Exhibiting all the layers of his Los Angeles studio, Paul McCarthy reveals his most intimate secrets, as well as those of his audience.
  • A machine for welcoming Ettore Spalletti's one-man show inaugurates the new Lia Rumma Gallery in Milan. Space and art establish a syntonic dialogue that seems to erase boundaries.
  • Allesi Ecosystem A book and an exhibition take a look at the company's history to identify a fertile path towards the future: from a culture of eclecticism to the new instances, in order to achieve the design of simple things.
  • A portrayal of Servino, autobiographical narrator. The endless rewriting of an architectural archetype and vernacular elements. A continuous repertory of secondary images. A personal frame of reference for intimate spaces.
  • Flos, a generous utopia: a knack for scouting unexpected talents and unusual techniques.

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