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In July–August issue The New Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron with a text by Deyan Sudjic and The Feuerle Collection by John Pawson and Realarchitektur Petra Petersson; the opinion of seven architects about the Venice Architecture Biennale and a taste fo Brazil with texts by Frampton and Bucci.

In July–August editorial, Nicola Di Battista affirms that the first thing to do, if we care about change, is to once again ask the people to explain what they do, its value and sense, the quality of their products both inside and outside the discipline.

Domus presents The New Tate Modern in London by Herzog & de Meuron with a text by Deyan Sudjic and the set up of the Feuerle Collection in Berlin by John Pawson and Realarchitektur Petra Petersson in a II World War bunker; the Lee Building for research and teaching, ETH in Zurich by Fawad Kazi and Steven Holl’s little pavilion, in which he creates his beloved watercolours. Seven architects tell theri opinion about the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Piero Lissoni recounts his design approach, while Eero Aarnio’s work is analysed in the broadest exhibition ever produced, on show at Designmuseo in Helsinki.

A book by Maurizio Nannucci gathers into a catalogue raisonné all the editions and multiples created by him since 1967. The theme of the great Mimmo Jodice’s “Attesa 1960–2016” exhibition in Naples has been interpreted by Pietro Montani.

This issue school is the Faculty of Architetture at University of Tokyo offering wide-ranging professional training which goes beyond traditional design fields has led to a focus on the various problems presented by land use, and to an emphasis on computational and parametric design. The city – both the historical and the contemporary – is at the centre of Inès Lamunière’s teaching at Lausanne’s École Polytechnique Fédérale.

Finally a “taste” of Brazil with a text by Kenneth Frampton on Roberto Burle Marx and Angelo Bucci’s feedback on San Paolo.

Francisco Martín Cabrero elzeviro “Living in the exile”, underlines how “from exile a new idea of citizenship, no longer founded on acquired rights but on those to be acquired without distinction of language, sex, age, religion, ethnicity, provenance, or ideas.”

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