Domus 1009 on newsstands

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.

Domus 1009, dettaglio della copertina

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.

  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.