It also explores a Dutch housing scheme by London firm Tony Fretton and visits the Ciguë architectural practice and design workshop in France.

Jasper Morrison describes his work method and Paul Smith his retrospective at the London Design Museum; Naoto Fukasawa explains the importance of a Tokyo design museum and Patricia Urquiola discusses her new book. In the Feedback on Marseilles, Jacques Sbriglio speaks of a city that is ethnically hybrid also in its architecture – and fascinating for this very reason.

This month Domus presents two schools of architecture, one in Europe and one in the USA, with the professors of the Cercle research group in Barcelona drawing educational resources from studies on the large metropolis and Wiel Arets, Dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology, illustrating the school’s history and its teaching programme.