This month Domus publishes the project of Garage Museum by OMA in Moscow; Toyo Ito & Associates’s library in Gifu, Japan; a house by Aires Mateus brothers in Lisbon and the social housing by Sergio Pascolo Architects in Germany.

Artek is celebrating its 80th anniversary and Domus reprints the article Aalto wrote in 1947 where he explains his artistic vision when he founded the historic company. Patricia Urquiola describes the characteristics of her approach to design: curiosity, obsession and the observation of everything that surrounds us. Making Africa, the Vitra Design Museum exhibition illustrates how design is playing its part in devising and steering the change of an entire continent.

Domus choses three relevant moments of this month’s cultural offer: in Milan, with Giotto’s exhibition at Palazzo Reale, in New York for the first Burri retrospective at Guggenheim, and in Rome for the Richard Wright exhibition at Galleria Gagosian.

The MOME – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest venerable Hungarian university where László Moholy-Nagy once studied is still guided by the holistic and integrative Bauhaus approach while the furthering of craft traditions remains one of the key components of its formula. The course led for over 20 years by Paul Robbrecht, at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas, Ghent, is structured as a place of exchange and discussion of a great number of subjects, with the aim to heighten the empathetic nature of architectural culture.

Tadao Ando’s Osaka is this month Feedback: a city that has long been subject to political and economic subsidence notwithstanding, the structure of Osaka, built during the period of urban reformation in the 19th century, remains solid.

Franco Farinelli says, in the Elzeviro, that “in order to comprehend the logic of advancing globalisation, one of the most useful things is to look carefully at our ancient buildings to learn the highly relevant and urgent lesson they contain.”