Domus
By: Spenta Mutimedia Pvt Ltd- September 2015
- Price : 150.00
- Published on September 3, 2015
- Spenta Mutimedia Pvt Ltd
- Issues 70
- Language - English
- Published monthly
About this issue
Two features in the September 2015 issue of Domus India expose the larger, unsettled, and complex imagination and world of architecture – the discussions on the making and unpacking of the Kumbh Mela and the collection of paintings and drawings by Sir Peter Cook. In an interview, Peter Cook points out to a very important and delicate issue – the idea of architecture that plays in the realms of imagination and utopia versus what one would otherwise refer to as ‘build-able’ or ‘normal’ architecture. The feature on Kumbh Mela which is a series of extracts from the research and subsequent book – discusses a Pop-Up urbanity – an architectural landscape of the built and of its ‘unbuilding’. The issue also discusses 'dwellings' — it occupies much of this issue as the architectural phenomenon of material realities and notions of urbanity. While in other cases the act of architecture engages with form, memory and light, as with the Box of Light in Italy and Fort House in Hyderabad, in some, the dwelling is an urban island within a wider landscape of suburban India as with the Lattice House in Jammu featured in this issue.
About Domus
Domus, the iconic architecture and design magazine from Italy, is now in India. The eight-decade-old monthly magazine has a history of informed debate on architecture, interiors, art and design. The Indian edition, the first Domus exclusively in the English language, seeks to encourage and promote innovation in the built environment. Domus has been brought to India by Spenta Multimedia, India's largest custom publisher. It aims to track and review the latest architectural and artistic movements in India and the world through its exciting content and rich visuals.