Domus 870 May 2004
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Ten years ago, the photographer Paola Di Bello recomposed the Paris subway map into a collage of hundreds of small colour photographs. Each shows the spot on the locator maps one finds in every metro station where passengers place their finger and think, “So, now I’m here.” The result is an unusual map showing Paris as a vital world. A world where major transport hubs and popular places are erased or faded by the touch of countless fingers. Di Bello’s collage is an atlas of Parisian tourism. A particular kind of atlas, in which the impersonal code of classical cartography and thousands of subjective acts are juxtaposed. Not unlike a DJ’s remix, the routes of the metro tracks are layered with the movement of the bodies that travel along them. This atlas of the Parisian subway tells of an eclectic geography, made up of daily routines, tourist sites, brief stops, corridors of flow, forgotten areas, solitary places. It is a geography, not only of spaces, but also of tempos and movements, surprisingly similar to our way of thinking about the contemporary city. Today, atlases in this mode are needed more than ever, not just as a compendium of data, but also as a representation of daily life as we live it in our urban landscape.
Domus 870 May 2004
This month: special 13-page contribution by Matthew Barney. De Lama Lamina (From mud, weapons)
Calendar
Milan in April: 1. Transient
An audiovisual event for Domus, by Ludovico Einaudi and Armin Linke
Milan in April: 2. Arad, Lovegrove, Grcic, Vogelzang/Droog Design, Bey, Citterio. Portraits at the Salone
Six designers present their projects at the Milan Furniture Fair
Architecture in Extreme Environments 1. Antarctica. ARQZE. Ice Station in Chile
A Chilean research base in Antarctica, designed and assembled by ARQZE (Arquitectura de Zonas Extremas)
Architecture in Extreme Environments 2. Australia. Longitude 131
Ten kilometres northwest of Ayer’s Rock, an encampment-like cluster of luxury “tents” defies the torrid climate of Australia’s Red Centre
Architecture in Extreme Environments 3. Thailand. Philippe Parreno, Francois Roche. Hybrid Muscle
On a fertile patch of mud in the middle of Thailand, Parreno and Roche created an architectural freak; author Bruce Sterling comments
Giancarlo De Carlo. The memory of architecture
Can one say that architecture as human beings have imagined it for centuries has ended?
A tribute to Cedric
Price Memories, thoughts and anecdotes of friends who came into contact with the Price “device”, collected and compiled by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Bruno Latour. Alternative digitality
The disturbing perfection of copies
(M)RE-tourism
‘MRE’ (Moroccans Resident Abroad): the collective Multiplicity documents the physical and economic impact of migrants returning home for the holidays
Milan in April: 3. Joris Laarman. Joris’ choice
A young Dutch designer picks the most interesting designs for Domus from Salone del Mobile 2004
Interview: Chantal Akerman
Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Chantal Akerman, arguably the most important European director of her generation
Peter Eisenman. The Box of Changes
Peter Eisenman draws on the logic of I Ching in his proposal for a public square and museum in Guangzhou, China. Text by Peter Eisenman
Rastignac. La Comedie Humaine II
Voyage to Pemba: Exoticism and voodoo
Post-it: Books
Post-it: Graphics
Rassegna: Building materials
Panorama
El Topo: Harrell Fletcher
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (Wrong Gallery)
