THE FOURTH ISSUE OF DOMUS UNDER BJARKE INGELS' GUEST EDITORSHIP IS OUT

“Metal – The backbone of the global back of house,” the fourth issue of DOMUS under Bjarke Ingels’ guest editorship explores the lightness, strength, and symbolic potential of architecture’s most adaptable material. In this issue, Bjarke speaks with Junya Ishigami on his experiments with steel in the quest for an almost immaterial sense of lightness. Dominique Perrault honors the architectural potential of metallic textiles in his 2,300-page opus, while Florian Idenburg, Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke push aluminum and steel to explore new spatial and structural possibilities. MAD’s swirling Tornado pavilion of stainless steel gives physical form to the fluidity of motion graphics, while Sam Chermayeff reimagines kitchen appliances as sculptural, standalone objects. Muller Van Severen blur the lines between minimalism and expressionism in their metal furniture, Ben Storms explores steel as a raw substance, and Antony Gormley captures reflections of the human body from iron scraps in his oxymoron essay “Iron Emotions.”