Manolo De Giorgi discusses the “issue” of measure in interior architecture and Jean Nouvel’s design for the new Patent Office in The Hague is flanked by Yang Zaho’s building for the Home-for-All project. Memories of James Irvine revisit some of his work and Domus explores Kvadrat’s relationship with art, the inspiration behind the Danish company’s research. Alexander Sokurov’s films offer an opportunity to reflect on bodies, space and architecture and, in Feedback, Paolo Portoghesi traces an itinerary through the millenary history of Rome in “just” 16 locations.

In Europe, Tony Fretton, a professor at TU Delft, highlights his university’s dangerous bureaucratic involution, as witnessed in other schools of architecture and prompted by a funding shortfall, and in Canada the transfer of the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture has triggered a radical change, described to Domus by its celebrated director Eric Haldenby.