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February issue features the Building on the water in China by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira, the Jazz campus by Buol & Zünd in Basel, the Casa Além by Valerio Olgiati in Portugal, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s studio with tearoom for ceremonies in New York and the work of Lebanese design studio .Pslab.

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February’s editorial returns to the design process, seen as a key moment in architecture, and the crucial importance of the relationship with the past.

Projects illustrated in this issue span from Buol & Zünd’s Jazz Campus in Basel Switzerland to Valerio Olgiati’s Villa Além in Portugal plus a visit to New York where Hiroshi Sugimoto presents his studio with tearoom and Jean Nouvel describes the “box” designed for Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The last stop is China and Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira’s Building on the Water.

Lebanese studio .Pslab explains its global approach to design founded on collaboration, while Konstantin Grcic searches for beauty driven not by form but by intelligence, simple function and quality construction. Textile designer Paola Besana explains her method, enlighting the three-dimensionality of textiles rather than the flat surface.

The large Lucio Amelio exhibition at the MADRE museum, curated by Andrea Viliani, narrates the life of a gallery owner who turned Naples into a contemporary-art hub and Attilio Stocchi at the Triennale highlights the importance of water in the renegotiation of Milan’s relationship with its hinterland.

This month’s schools are the Bauhaus-Universität, heir of the Gropius-founded Bauhaus, which with 80 partners has a strong international focus; and Jacques Lucan, Éric Lapierre, Odile Seyler’s Master-degree course at the École d’Architecture de la Ville et de Territoires in Paris structured in seminars.

February’s feedback returns to Italy and the Florence of Adolfo Natalini who suggests exploring the 19th-century city’s avenues, pointing out that, apart from the odd building, the historic city seems to prevail in thought and fact. Elzeviro is by Alberto Sironi, who has, among other things, directed the successful Inspector Montalbano RAI TV series. He describes the many houses he has lived in, each unique, and his quest to relive the memories of his childhood home.

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