The Rise of Individuality and

Ecological Awareness

Design and architecture turning points of the

1970s, à la domus

Founded in 1928 as a « living diary » by the great Milanese

architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as

the world's most influential architecture and design journal.

With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and

stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and

structural design.

This fresh reprint of the 1970s domus coverage brings

together the most important features from an era marking

seismic changes in architecture and design. It was a time

when individualism gained momentum as a novel style, and

we began to notice the first postmodernist tendencies. Faced

with the global energy crisis, architects and designers imbued their methods with a new ecological awareness.

For work to be featured in the magazine it had to offer

function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion, relevant

originality, or grace. The groundbreaking projects and practitioners that made the cut include Shiro Kuramata, Verner

Panton, Joe Colombo, Richard Meier, the modernist structures by Foster Associates and the Centre Georges Pompidou

by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

« domus has a rich history

of spotting trends and fashions.

It elevates icons to classics. »

- Bene , New York