“GLASS – FROM ETHEREAL TO MATERIAL” DOMUS ISSUE #5 UNDER BJARKE INGELS' GUEST EDITORSHIP IS NOW AVAILABLE

“Glass – From ethereal to material,” the fifth issue of DOMUS curated by Bjarke Ingels explores the paradox of architecture’s most elusive and omnipresent material. In this issue, Sophie Wolf traces the evolution of glass tectonics and James O’Callaghan shares the latest frontier of structural glass, where architecture begins to disappear. In Tokyo, Kazuyo Sejima unpacks how SANAA’s poetic clarity is grounded in radical pragmatism. Christopher Payne takes us inside the monumental making of telescope lenses – glass at its most precise. Shohei Shigematsu and Olafur Eliasson add crystalline pavilions to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Masoud Akbarzadeh and his team at UPenn integrate architecture and engineering in a transparent bridge made from a 3D puzzle of glass shard. Paul Cocksedge uses slumping to create soft collisions between glass and found objects, while Dustin Yellin reveals the deep flatness of his sculptural collages.