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September’s editorial underlines that a new climate has been wafting through Milan in the past few months, a sensation emanated by the city. We are certain that if Milan could regain its former self, a new season would automatically ensue. We architects would then be able to share the task of giving form to all this.

The September issue features the Prada’s industrial complex in Valvigna, Tuscany, by Guido Canali; the project by Edoardo Guazzoni, Paolo Rizzatto, Sandro Rossi of the new Darsena in Milan; the restoration of Mies van der Rohe’s Tughendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic recently completed. The Argentinian Francisco Gomez-Paz, who lives in Milan since 1998, recounts his design process, Jean-Marie Massaud his second project for Arper, the Steeve collection, with strong tectonic forms, while for the Lebanese designer Karen Chekerdjian, designing is the fruit of constant interaction with craftspeople and the continuous search for a unifying order. The Argentinian Francisco Gomez-Paz, who lives in Milan since 1998, recounts his design process, Jean-Marie Massaud his second project for Arper, the Steeve collection, with strong tectonic forms, while for the Lebanese designer Karen Chekerdjian, designing is the fruit of constant interaction with craftspeople and the continuous search for a unifying order. The pencil, has become the undisputed protagonist of the latest book by Tullio Pericoli. The exhibition “Mito e Natura. Dalla Grecia a Pompei” (Myth and Nature from Greece to Pompeii), with the display designed by Francesco Venezia, is an unusual voyage into the figurative representation of the world around us in the ancient world. The energy of Central Saint Martins College, London, important centre of education is being turned outward to society by making crafts, technology and critical thinking take on a cultural and political role. The Karl-Heinz Schmitz’s course, at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar studies the themes of integrating the new into the urban context, and the public functions inside the buildings themselves. The creation of a permanent platform to study historic cities was the aim of the fifth edition of a master’s degree course in architecture, organised by the University of Naples Federico II and Domus in collaboration with seven European architecture schools. Jean-Pierre de la Porte Feedback recounts Johannesburg, acentric city founded in 1886, and Soweto, the most famous place in Africa as its high-school students led the 1976 confrontation that marked the beginning of the end of the apartheid regime, that hosts some of the most vibrant social life in the world. This month’s Elzeviro is a text by Paul Valéry, written in 1927, “The Function of Paris”. For free the Green special report, eighty pages of projects, materials, thoughts – from architecture to art – on sustainability.