domus 1940s (Bibliotheca Universalis)

domus 1940s (Bibliotheca Universalis)

<strong>Forms on the front line: Architecture and design in the context of WWII</strong><br /><br />Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, <em>domus</em> has been hailed as <strong>the world’s most influential architecture and design journal</strong>. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.<br /><br />This fresh reprint of <em>domus</em>’s coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features from a <strong>decade of destruction and reconstruction</strong>. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan, <em>domus</em> continued to publish through much of the war, charting the design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors and editors-in-chief during Ponti’s “interregnum” between 1941 and 1948.<br /><br />The pages from this period record reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture, <strong>new prefabricated houses, American academic architecture</strong>, the building projects of <strong>Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and Giuseppe Terragni</strong>, as well as the postwar flowering of <strong>Organic Design</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>domus distilled</strong><ul> <li> Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 <li> Over 6,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects <li> Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context <li> New introductory essays by renowned architects and designers <li> Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian <li> A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names</ul><br /><strong>About the series:</strong><br /><strong><em>Bibliotheca Universalis</em>— Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price</strong>!<br />Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. <em>Bibliotheca Universalis</em> brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.<br /><strong>Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite</strong>!<br /><br />Text in English, French, German, and Italian