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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 ...

Urban China#33 is out! The special 'Creative China: Counter-Mapping the Creative Industries' issue was guest-edited by Mónica Carriço, Bert de Muynck and Ned Rossiter; and designed by Hendrik-Jan Grievink. The magazine is in Chinese (with select texts published in English). An overview, including all texts in English, is available at our project website: OrgNets.net. Also visit the Urban China#33-page on MovingCities for a summary of the content and ...

Following up on part one of the interview with Professor Peter G. Rowe, the second half is directed towards understanding the mechanisms of the urban development that stem out of the Asian expanding metropolitan environment. Thereby questioning the notion of east-west and import-export relations in the field of architecture and urbanism, Peter Rowe reflects upon the urban development of Shanghai, emerging new forms of engagement amongst Chinese architects ...

In his second dispatch, architect Dan Handel interviews Professor Peter G. Rowe. By providing insight into his study of the contemporary city in the Asian context Professor Rowe reflects on today's development of research, understanding, communication and analysis of the metropolitan environment. The interview took place in Professor Rowe's office at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, on the 29th of October.

Completely filmed by Diego Grass Puga | 0300TV before 2008’s Beijing Olympics and edited right after its ending, “CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA” presents a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation and history. This special isn’t an effort to portrait a certain scene [the profiles of each character are quite diverse] but to establish four issues that every Chinese architect has to deal with in ...

“What is exactly happening here?” | movingcities.org Back in the pre-Olympic Beijing times, when Beijing's urban development was in full force, fast forward, closely watched and mesmerizing, the paths of MovingCities and 0300TV crossed in a very fruitful and productive way. 0300TV is, to us without any doubt, the web's premier architectural television channel. Ran from Chile, the ass of the world as architect/director Diego Grass Puga described ...

movingcities interviewed Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal on their new project, 'Decolonizing Architecture'. Set up in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, and produced by the Haudenschild Foundation, the project attempts to use architecture as an “arena of speculation” about possible futures of Palestine.