Architecture
Domus India
Eating The Crust
Mines + climate change Action vs extraction Uncomfortable truth
6 min |
April 2019
Domus India
The Open City
From wireframe to reality The neoliberal city Open planning systems Porosity
7 min |
April 2019
Domus India
Indian Aesthetics On The Trail Of Jain Art In Tamil Nadu
The remains of deserted Jain cave sites, weathered rock-cut reliefs, sculptures discovered in fields and now displayed in museums, as well as the few temples still in use in Tamil Nadu give a glimpse of a thriving Jain culture of a bygone era.
8 min |
March 2019
Domus India
Water Risks Spell Opportunity
DiscussionDe-risking the world Water management as leverage of prosperity Design as catalyst for change
7 min |
March 2019
Domus India
The Beautiful Factory
In 100 archive pictures on display in Settimo Torinese, the home of its most innovative factory complex, Pirelli tells the story of a business culture reminiscent of Olivetti’s “industrial humanism” and how it remains fundamental to the creation of new opportunities for development.
4 min |
April 2017
Domus India
038 Parma
Strolling along Via al Duomo, you come, right in the middle of the street that becomes a square, upon the solid mass of the Baptistery, part of which lies outside the Roman city’s boundary.
4 min |
April 2017
Domus India
Francisco Mangado Congress Centre, Palma De Mallorca
An imposing building facing the sea highlights the Spanish architect’s capacity to relate to a large scale site, while devoting great care and intensity to the interiors
4 min |
September 2107
Domus India
India And The Life Of An Architect
A review of the recently published book on a key figure in Modern architecture in India, A.P Kanvinde, dwells upon what we can learn about architecture and India through the biography of an architect.
3 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Spaces Of Belonging
A selection of photographs of a house nestled in an Art Deco-style building in a leafy by-lane in Mumbai brings forth the vividly tactile and spatial qualities that go beyond a vacuous built environment and focuses instead on the life that inhabits the space
4 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Marco Zanuso Press House, Lydenburg, South Africa
In the 1970s the Milanese architect designed a house in South Africa. Recently rediscovered, it is still relevant with its sensitive yet radical approach. The design takes to an extreme Zanuso’s research into an idea of the home fixed thirty years ago in the pages of Domus and still valid
5 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Compositions Of Memory
We take a photographic journey through Virasat-e-Khalsa Memorial in Chandigarh, designed by Moshe Safdie Architects; witnessing the composition of colossal forms and the various affective moments that manifest between these forms making the complex, ultimately, poetic. The multiplicity of scales across architectural elements and compositions invokes the simultaneous silence and turbulence of memories, enigmatically, throughout this building complex.
3 min |
January 2017
Domus India
In The Name Of Housing
A recently published study on the circumstances surrounding the trope of housing in Mumbai attempts to document, probe, and represent the various housing typologies in the city, simultaneously analysing the urgent questions of space organisation, infrastructure, and the community.
4 min |
April 2017
Domus India
Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking The Archive
In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York – with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library of Columbia University – acquired the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archive. Now it is holding a major retrospective to commemorate the great American architect’s birth 150 years ago. We asked Kenneth Frampton to talk about the exhibition.
4 min |
December 2017
Domus India
Designing A Disobedient Show For An Unruly Space
An ongoing exhibition throws light upon ceramic and clay objects made by hereditary and studio-trained potters as well as artists — and their histories — that have never, or rarely, been measured and mapped. Held in a repurposed space of an office building in a corporate park in central Mumbai, it appropriately illustrates the challenges involved in the process of exhibition-making in an ‘unruly’ space; highlights the experience of the art-viewer; and discusses the notion of spatial possibilities in ‘alternate museums’
10+ min |
December 2017
Domus India
Enzo Cucchi Fountain Of The Two Suns Ancona
The use of what was already there seems to have been the thinking behind the fountain added by the artist to the splendid setting of the port of Ancona, presented here in the masterly words of Francesco Merlo, who describes its landscape, imagery and fa-ti-ca.
5 min |
December 2017
Domus India
Context And Memory Are Complex Propositions
On many recent occasions – at conferences, panel discussions, private conversations at work as well as discussing student-works at the academy, the complex nature of what architectural language should be seems to be coming into focus constantly.
5 min |
October 2016
Domus India
Lightness Of Being
Two projects – one, a rehabilitation of a place of significant historical importance and the other a city house – both in the dense urban milieu of Pune, explore the use of mass and light; light not only through illumination, but also through the inversion of visual weight by inventive spatial and tectonic moves.
6 min |
October 2016
Domus India
Remembering The Forgotten
The seven-day-long Kullu Dussera Festival following Vijayadashami is when more than 300 devtas and devis are worshipped across the Kullu Valley, and make their way to the enclosure of Lord Raghunath, the presiding deity of the town. The author explores the notions of time, space, and collective memory, tracing the living traditions of a place through its geographical armature.
4 min |
December 2016
Domus India
Patrick Berger - Jacques Anziutti
THE CANOPY, PARIS Since the demolition in 1971 of the 19th-century pavilions designed by Victor Baltard for the central markets, the area of Halles has been through various building stages, some rather tormented. Now, with the grand architectural gesture of the Canopy, the work of two French architects has given new meaning from an urban point of view to this central place, resolving the complexity of its social, cultural and infrastructural functions
4 min |
December 2016
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Vincent Van Duysen
MERGING DESIGN AND ARCHITECTUREStarting from his new projects for Molteni&C, where he has just become art director, and for Flos, the Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen explains to Domus his approach to design. This takes architecture and design as a single discipline focused on human needs – it starts from the design of the place and continues to the furniture and the objects which surround us and which we need for a satisfactory life.
5 min |
December 2016
Domus India
Time, Politics, and Housing
A recent exhibition on housing in India uses discourse as a tool to addresses the concepts of living and dwelling in a constantly evolving urban-rural continuum
6 min |
April 2018
Domus India
Economy And Cultural Production
Andrea Phillips talks to Martina Angelotti about a different way of interpreting the concept of value in the cultural field
8 min |
April 2018
Domus India
Studio Formafantasma Ore Streams
Studio Formafantasma turns scrap into a resource and confirms that design can play a crucial part in issues in which our planet’s future is at stake.
4 min |
April 2018
Domus India
On Valerio Olgiati
A new book on the work of Valerio Olgiati was recently published. Here we feature an excerpt from the volume’s afterword by Jacques Lacan, who delineates the Swiss architect’s figurative approach.
3 min |
Febuary 2018
Domus India
The Intimacy Of Everyday Space
A recent exhibition highlights a suite of work of eminent artist Sudhir Patwardhan, comprising over 80 portraits as well as studies of the personal space, that is, his home studio. In conversation with artist Jitish Kallat, Patwardhan discusses the notions of ageing, companionship, routineness, and the passage of time, and reflects upon why navigating the enclosed, private space is central to his practice.
10+ min |
Febuary 2018
Domus India
A Template For Minimal Living
Located on a small site in the town of Belgaum, the design and construction of Stacked Student Housing highlights the architects’ attempt to make maximum yet judicious use of minimum space without compromising on the quality of space. While the optimisation of resources ensured the project’s completion within its modest budget, the masterful spatial articulation is perhaps its key attribute.
6 min |
Febuary 2018
Domus India
Inagawa Cemetery Chapel And Visitor Centre
The unusual topography and terracing of a cemetery in the mountains north of Osaka dictate the nature and proportions of its new architecture. The design of the roof defines the surrounding geometries and coloured concrete heightens the sense of permanence.
2 min |
Febuary 2018
Domus India
Somaya & Kalappa Consultants It Campus For Tata Consultancy Services Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Designed with water bodies and plenty of green areas, an IT campus in Indore seeks inspiration from the river Narmada that flows through Madhya Pradesh.
10+ min |
November 2018
Domus India
The Demon's Tears: Water And Worship At Lonar
Formed due to the impact of a meteorite, the Lonar Lake — located in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra — is surrounded by numerous temples, a majority of them in ruins. These temples are probably a reminder of the eternal cycle of life and death, and of the essential sacredness of the site, over the lake itself.
6 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Djibouti. Flexibility And Tribal Values
In the Horn of Africa, the idea of the home often takes the form of an open space; the house is a place of collective appropriation.
2 min |