"Das Unbehagen an unseren Städten ist ziemlich allgemein"1 opined the German architecture and design theoretician Hans Eckstein in 1972, 'discontent with our cities is fairly universal', continuing 'it is growing day by day. Accusations and indignation are heard everywhere. It is almost impossible to ignore the amount of literature about the miserable condition of our cities.' Yet despite the apparent, certainly for Eckstein, urgency and ubiquity of the discontent, he laments that 'there are
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As all around, certainly all around here in Europe, the world blossoms and blooms into life, as colour and variety and vitality abound, it's strange to remember that just a few short weeks ago everything was so barren, monochrome, desolate. Not least in context of the global architecture and design museum community: how hard we had to labour to achieve anything approaching what could justifiably be termed a 'list' of new architecture and design exhibitions. Similarly it's hard to imagine that
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