In Mark Magazine #19 (April-May 2009), Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published a small article called "The Importance of Slowness" about two artists' studios in the suburbs of Beijing designed by Wang Hui | Limited Design. In it, the architect explains why he didn't go to his office for two months and how century old trees dictated the design of the studios.
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities publishes "Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture" on the ArtForum Chinese website. The piece discusses the 16 proposals from Chinese and foreign architects shown at the earlier reported exhibition at the National Art Museum of China.
Our final set of Lisbon snapshots deals with the second half of our May 1 Lisnave expedition. Continuing to explore the Southern shore of the Lisbon Tagus estuary, we ran into deserted shipyards and collapsed warehouses.
On Tuesday May 12 the "Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture"-exhibition opened at the National Art Museum of China . Marking the first anniversary of the May 12th Wenchuan earthquake, the exhibition shows 16 proposals from Chinese and foreign architects. Their aim is to raise awareness over the prevention and relief of natural disasters and epidemics. Introduction and snapshots of the opening.
Mark Magazine had in December/January 08/09 its 17th issue out. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities contributed to it with an article called "Anything That Is Good Is Called Lekker" (full version) about the young Singaporean based architectural practice Lekker Design. Joshua Comaroff, an American citizen, and Ong Ker-Shing, a Singaporean citizen, are the directors of Lekker Design. In 2008, Lekker Design was present at the 2008 Venice Biennale ...
Perspective magazine (Hong Kong) features in its February 2009 edition 'OBRA at work in China' - a text by Bert de Muynck | MovingCities. OBRA Architects, founded by Jennifer Lee and Pablo Castro in 2000, operates from New York. Throughout 2008 both Castro and Lee visited China four times, twice in the context of ORDOS100, once to present their 'Beijing Tripod, Blank 2008' installation in the Median Art ...
On February 20, the UCCA hosted the unveiling of the design of the French Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, which goes by the theme of "la ville sensuelle". Designed by French architect Jacques Ferrier the idea of the pavilion is to be sensual and ecological at the same time. According to the press release sensuality is expressed by an architecture appealing to the five senses, while ...
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