Domus 1970-1979

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” of the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been acclaimed as the world’s most influential architecture and design magazine. With style and rigor, it has reported on the main topics and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.

This new reprint of domus's coverage of the 1970s gathers the most important features from an era that marked seismic shifts in architecture and design. It was a time when individualism gained momentum as a novel style and we began to notice the first postmodernist trends. Faced with the global energy crisis, architects and designers imbued their methods with a new ecological awareness. For a work to appear in the magazine, it had to offer function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion, relevant originality, and/or grace. Those innovative projects and professionals who made the cut include Shiro Kuramata, Verner Panton, Joe Colombo, Richard Meier, the modernist structures of Foster Associates, and Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’s Centre Georges Pompidou.domus distilled Seven volumes spanning from 1928 to 1999 More than 4,000 pages presenting influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix with texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian

A comprehensive index in each volume lists the names of designers and manufacturers.