London studio FAT will create an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying inside a 5-metre-high model of Palladio's Villa Rotunda for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 next week. More about The Museum of Copying by FAT at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Architect Peter Zumthor presents a series of his models in an old post office beside the Austrian gallery Kunsthaus Bregenz that he designed in the 1990s. More about Architectural models by Peter Zumthor
This modular container by architects Nilsson Pflugfelder of London and Berlin can be reconfigured to create a workspace, artist's residence, archive or meeting area as required by its host, the FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists in Genk, Belgium. More about Verbandkammer by Nilsson Pflugfelder
Cologne 2013: Venetian designer Luca Nichetto is to create an installation representing his ideal home for the Das Haus installation at trade fair imm cologne in January. More about Luca Nichetto to design Das Haus at imm cologne 2013
Students at the Geneva University of Art and Design have formed a travelling commune inside a collection of shipping containers and have been staging performances around Switzerland. More about The Commune by Geneva University of Art and Design students
Artist Esther Stocker has built a disjointed grid of black blocks across the floor, walls and ceiling of Z33 – House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium. More about Based on a Grid by Esther Stocker
An exhibition of work by Italian design maestro Ettore Sottsass is on show at Friedman Benda gallery in New York. More about Ettore Sottsass: A Survey, 1992 – 2007 at Friedman Benda
A solo show of work by British designer Thomas Heatherwick opens at the V&A in London this week, featuring prototypes, experiments, material samples and finished works from key projects including UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 and his recent redesign of the double decker London bus. More about Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A
Architects Carmody Groarke and graphic designers A Practice For Everyday Life used Bauhaus-style colours and typography for the design of an exhibition about the celebrated art school at the Barbican gallery in London. More about Bauhaus: art as life by Carmody Groarke and A Practice For Everyday Life
Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More about Designed in Hackney: Designs of the Year exhibition by Michael Marriott
Milan 2012: British designer Lee Broom is showcasing furniture and lighting at an exhibition styled like a British public house at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. More about Public House by Lee Broom at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2012: in a Milanese palazzo this week Italian design magazine Domus presents an exhibition of open design and digital manufacture that puts control of production processes in the hands of designers and consumers. More about The Future in The Making: Open Design Archipelago
Textasiða, a typography exhibition by graphic designers Snæfríð Thorsteins and Hildigunnur Gunnarsdottir, was on show last month at Crymogea as part of DesignMarch 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland. More about Textasiða by Snæfríð Thorsteinsand Hildigunnur Gunnarsdottir
A series of lamps, tables and storage made by New York designer Stephen Burks in collaboration with basket weavers in a village outside of Dakar is on show at the Design Exchange in Toronto. More about Man Made Toronto by Stephen Burks
London designers JamesPlumb present a solo show of their work in Geneva this month, including a three-piece suite made by inserting cast concrete seats between the carved frames of a reclaimed sofa and armchairs. More about Goodnight Day by JamesPlumb
Dezeen in Israel: devices that spy, measure, dance and eavesdrop have been added to an exhibition of digital and interactive design that has travelled to the Design Museum Holon. More about Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Design Museum Holon
An inflatable naked man bulges against the walls of this gallery where visitors can stay the night, either on the floor of one gallery or in a van outside. More about Too Fat To Fail at The Proposal by Jeremie Maret, Lenny Staples and Christian Weber
Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty's new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. More about In Vein by Ayala Serfaty
Inside 2011: the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London by OPERA Amsterdam have just been announced as the winner of the display category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. More about Inside award winner: V&A Ceramics Study Galleries by OPERA Amsterdam
Dezeen Wire: art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London. More about Critics' reactions to Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935