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The Towards a fresh start editorial stresses the need to stop talking and start acting, once again discussing the product of everyone’s work – from the humblest to the finest, from the professions to the arts, from education to production and from enterprise to services – so that its value is based on the result of the work, and that alone.

This month’s projects include a new stadium in Bordeaux, France, by Herzog & de Meuron; an apartment building in Vienna by Sergison Bates architects and Peter Märkli’s design for a house in Switzerland, interpreted by Beigel and Christou who imagine it 200 years from now. Lorenzo Damiani talks to Domus about his concept of design and Ernesto Gismondi reviews the history of Artemide while also tracing out its future. For the 50th anniversary of the Haller modular furniture, patented by Paul Schärer in 1965, Swiss company USM held a week-long workshop to rethink the very concept of modularity. Vittorio Gregotti reviews the large Le Corbusier exhibition at the Centre Pompidou 50 years after the architect’s death. Domus archive material is key to a Fausto Melotti exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and, still on the subject of art, Pietro Montani explains the story of VOLUME!, a Rome art space promoted by Francesco Nucci. The Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, aka The Mac, promotes a design programme founded on workshop activity and social commitment, another cornerstone of its study cycle. To illustrate his teaching method, at Columbia University, Tschumi selected four studio projects that he has worked on with students to show how architecture is the invention and materialisation of content. The Feedback returns to Milan with Italo Lupi, exploring it in four itineraries visiting the old centre, the modern city, the suburbs, home to some fine buildings, and lastly baroque Milan. In elzeviro Franco La Cecla highlights the need to restore “humanity” to an urban design that has become an “arid and fastidiuos discipline”.