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Founded by furniture designer and architect, Gio Ponti—with the subtitle ‘Architecture and decor of the modern home in the city and in the country’—Domus is a hefty Italian bible of built and inhabited space. This is the sixth in a series guest edited by renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, part of a ‘materialist odyssey’ investigating the materials that have shaped the built world throughout human history. What came first, stone or wood? Although this series began by looking at stone, this issue turns its attention to its timber predecessor. ‘Undoubtedly the first material we learned to harvest and manipulate to create tools and shelter,’ wood is explored through a tour of six examples of wooden architecture around the world, from Osaka to Zurich to rural Chile. domusweb.it
