Architecture
Domus India
Design As A Mix Of Culture And Industry
On the occasion of the 55th Milan Furniture Fair, the president of both Federlegno Arredo (since 2011) and the Furniture Fair (since 2015) tells Domus about the strategy he adopted to overcome the crisis. By internationalising the Italian market from Moscow to Shanghai and from Tehran to Miami, he aims to export the Italian design industry as well as Italian culture, all the while giving support to entrepreneurs and creating training opportunities for young people.
5 min |
October 2016
Domus India
The New Tate Modern, London
The completion of the Swiss office’s project for the London museum marks not only the conclusion of a task begun 20 years ago, but also, and primarily, the accomplishment of a masterly work of architecture. Thanks to the guidance of an intelligent client and the professional maturity of the architects, it manages to dig its roots deep into London’s urban fabric as a genuine piece of the contemporary city.
3 min |
October 2016
Domus India
Salerno Maritime Terminal
After a very lengthy design process, the last project to be built in Italy by this celebrated, recently deceased architect has come to completion. It is a fine testimony to her strong poetics composed of fluid forms and advanced technology, unconventional spatiality and bold geometry, all masterfully controlled.
2 min |
October 2016
Domus India
Soft Thresholds: The Context As Generator Of Practice
Held in New Delhi in 2017, the second edition of the Cyrus Jhabvala Memorial Lecture, delivered by architect Rahul Mehrotra, focussed on why it is necessary to go beyond polarised binaries during the making of architectures — soft thresholds and spaces — that are visually and physically porous, plural in spirit and expression, and, most critically, encompassing of context.
10+ min |
March 2019
Domus India
Books City Stories
A collection of short stories centred on the city of Mumbai as the protagonist evocatively explores and documents neighbourhood identities, familial ties, and encounters with strangers.
5 min |
March 2019
Domus India
The Stories From My Journey: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
The third edition of the Cyrus Jhabvala Memorial Lecture was delivered by architect Christopher C. Benninger in September 2018. Benninger narrated the incidents that shaped his life and shared lessons and learnings for the future from his real-life stories.
10+ min |
March 2019
Domus India
The Neelkanth Mahadev Temple Of Alwar
Located atop a hillock in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, the Neelkanth Mahadev Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. Unassuming at first glance, the structure is expansive — comprising three shrines, elaborately carved doorways, and inscriptions
3 min |
May 2019
Domus India
Possibilities For A Non-Alienated Life
The recently concluded Kochi-Muziris Biennale, in its fourth edition, went against the grain of religion, nationalism and a celebratory globalism linked to neo-liberal thinking
4 min |
May 2019
Domus India
A Tryst With Contemporary India
Charles Correa’s design for the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad is that one rare occasion where architecture is cleansed of ego — it neither indulges in iconicity nor in symbolism; it is cleansed architecture.
5 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Monuments, Landscapes, Cities
A discussion on two books: one that focuses on the world heritage monument of the Taj Mahal and the context of the city it sits in, and the other that highlights the contemporary condition of the city of Agra and the natural and historical landscapes it is composed of
5 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Traces And Presences In The House Of Shadows
Conceived in multiple shredded layers, the Shadow House in Alibaug unravels myriad spaces, each rendered in a different intonation of light. These layers of the contemporary architectural envelope articulate the structure’s tectonic vocabulary — both for its design and landscape. Re-establishing a relation with the immediate outdoors, the living experience is designed to be gentle, dark, and quiet, with its hierarchy of volumes and spatial textures
5 min |
October 2017
Domus India
Indian Aesthetics - The Maidoms Of Charaideo In Assam
Massive brick-vaulted hemispherical structures covered by an earthen mound and topped with an open brick pavilion, the maidoms , scattered across Assam, tell a fascinating history of the burial of the dead royals
5 min |
April 2019
Domus India
Books Celestial Stories
An illustrated narrative about an officer who lives on the moon, Mooncop — filled with action and adventure — also dwells upon the tropes of loneliness, pathos, and the mundane
5 min |
April 2019
Domus India
A New World Map
Through the voices of the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at the Davos Forum, a new generation is crying out for action.
2 min |
April 2019
Domus India
Instant Megalopolis
Elastic urban design Superbly instantaneous Reusable infrastructure Urban metabolism
5 min |
April 2019
Domus India
Design Debates India
An ongoing exhibition that marks 100 years of the Bauhaus comprises a significant discourse on the ‘India story’, indicating how another idea of modernity, probably unique to a colonial encounter in the Indian subcontinent, with a history unfolding much on its own terms, was shaping a story of design and culture in another part of the world as the Bauhaus unfolded in Europe.
10+ min |
August 2018
Domus India
Difficult Relationships Between Maps And The Landscape
The landscape is everything a map fails to grasp of the world and to express in terms of the separation between subject and object, placing some distance between them.
6 min |
August 2018
Domus India
How To Design Lightscapes
Can light transform a space into a place? We asked Elettra Bordonaro, the lighting designer who led the three-year research programme Social Lightscapes Workshop Series, created to integrate social and behavioural sciences and lighting design.
2 min |
August 2018
Domus India
The Fabric Of A City
A recent book on the city of Lucknow focuses on the idea of a place not only as a geographical territory but as a part of people’s social lives, their identity, memory, and a sense of belonging and pride, each contributing to place-making in specific ways
8 min |
August 2018
Domus India
A Mining Town The Wild West Where Women Rule The Roost
A mining village in the New Mexico desert provides the backdrop for seven episodes of Godless and is the largest Western film-set ever built
1 min |
August 2018
Domus India
What Landscape Will Live On, After Us?
Antigone is Tacita Dean’s latest experimental film, a reflection on the natural and cultural landscape.
3 min |
August 2018
Domus India
In This Room, The Poems Come And Go
Poems by Arjun Rajendran Section curated by Ranjit Hoskote
1 min |
June - July 2018
Domus India
Wide Angle Lens
The spatial effect of the architecture of a rectangular box-like concrete structure sets the character of a house located on the outskirts of Nashik. The vivid compositional and constructional elements create a distinct silhouette against the horizon; the tight vertical dimension amplifies the horizontal expanses of the landscape of the house as much as the landscape outside the house
4 min |
August 2017
Domus India
Non C'È Italia Senza Spine / There's No Italy Without A Thorn
There’s no Italy without a thorn, says the drawing by Alessandro Mendini.
2 min |
August 2017
Domus India
The City Of Design
Italy has remained a federation of city-states.
2 min |
August 2017
Domus India
Void And Traces
VINCENZO LATINAREGENERATING THE OLD QUARRIES OF LAMPED USA
3 min |
August 2017
Domus India
C+S Architects
SCHOOL COMPLEX IN FONTANIVA , PADUA
3 min |