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January issue’s editorial calls to reflect on what we mean by project.

This month Domus goes to France and visit the Administration Center and Convention Center in France by José Ignacio Linazasoro that through the composition of spaces and relationships between pre-existing and new volumes, rebuilds a long damaged central area; then to New York where the restoration by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects of Lakeside and the addition of new public sports and recreation facilities afforded an opportunity to revive the former splendours of the nineteenth century park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in Brooklyn; then goes to Britain where for Chipperfield the first move for the plan for the Fayland House in Buckinghamshire was the restoration of the site to its natural conditions.
Two the art projects that interact closely with the landscape: the pavilion designed by the Sicilian Vincenzo Melluso, with the collaboration of the artist Erich Demetz, that through light becomes a place of meditation and contemplation of the landscape and Rabdomante (The water diviner) by Mimmo Paladino, placed on slopes of Mount Pizzuto, is an opportunity rehabilitate the flank of the mountain damaged by excavation for the construction of an important waterworks. Different angles to talk about design in this issue: the story of Naoto Fukasawa of its "design without thinking"; the director of the interdepartmental Sapienza Design Research Centre, Tonino Paris, talks about some of the ways in which our day-to-day horizon is changing; to the new paper produced by Fedrigoni. The school this month is the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki that holds together in a single university different disciplines ranging from architecture to design and arts crafts, offering students a strong humanistic based essentially on doing, while the chair is Kengo Kuma’s at the head of the new T_ADS laboratory created one year ago. He outlines the specifics of his vision on architecture training, one that is in open contrast with the traditional Japanese approach, where the different design disciplines have always been separated. In the Elzeviro “Half-citizens”, Paolo Baratta wonders how architecture is a question of citizens in the face of the poor concrete results in Italian cities. Finally, the feedback leads us in John Tuomey’s Dublin, who invites us to visit it by foot.