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In January issue: Kenneth Frampton on the regeneration of Wencun village in China, by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu; the Lycée Hôtellier by Caruso St John in Lille; the renovation of a school in Switzerland by Fiechter & Salzmann Architekten and the exhibitions by Mucha in Milan and Aisslinger in Munich.

The 1009 issue’s editorial discusses how a design theory has to be formulated to become a common thought for architects responding to the contemporaneity needs.

Kenneth Frampton reviews the regeneration of Wencun village in China, by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu; and then Domus propose the Lycée Hôtellier by Caruso St John in Lille; the renovation of a school in Switzerland by Fiechter & Salzmann Architekten.

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Wencun Village regeneration, view from the river
Fiechter & Salzmann Architekten, School in Hünenberg, the new atrium. Photo Andreas Buschmann
Caruso St John, Lycée Hôtellier, drawing for the competition. © Caruso St John Architects
Werner Aisslinger, Collezione di divani modulari Bikini per Moroso, 2013 (dettaglio)
Reinhard Mucha. "Schneller werden ohne Zeitverlust", installation view at Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, 2016. Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma Milano/Napoli

  This month’s school is the Technische Universität in Vienna that preserves a vocation for the maximum degree of openness – there are no enrolment fees and no student entrance exams. Werner Aisslinger’s exhibition in Münich is the occasion to examine in depth his approach to design, while is a text by artist Reinhard Mucha that describes his show in Milan. The reflection on the reconstruction after earthquake continues with a text by Raffaele Milani.