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Design 360° | publication
January 18th, 2012 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: guangzhou 广州, publications
City x People x Design | Design360 issue 37, January 2012
The Guangzhou 广州-based magazine Design 360° has always been a favorite bilingual [CN-EN] periodical of MovingCities. The first issue of 2012 has City x People x Design 城市•人•设计 as its theme. For our contribution we went in a dialogue with architect Zhang Ke 张轲 from standardarchitecture 标准营造. read more »
Preservation Playground | publication
January 12th, 2012 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: construction, demolition, publications, shanghai 上海
Preservation Playground | MARK Magazine#35
In Baoshan, a district on the northern outskirts of Shanghai 上海 known for its steel factories and shipyards, lays the Wendao Garden 闻道园. This garden covers an area of over 400 hectares and is a place where ancient houses from the nearby provinces of Anhui, Jianxi and Zhejiang are brought in and reconstructed. Last summer MovingCities visited the place and now MARK magazine published the story. Preservation Playground is online. read more »
Yona Friedman | book review
October 17th, 2011 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, books
Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people | MUSAC-ACTAR
A few weeks ago, MovingCities received from ACTAR two books for review: “Yona Friedman – Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people” and “Roberto Burle Marx – The Modernity of Landscape“. It might come as no surprise that we are keen on the build, textual and visual work of Yona Friedman, intrigued by the rediscovery of his work in art circles, but also taken aback by the overdose of repetition presented in this new publication. Allow us to explain. read more »
Tropical Modernity | book review
October 7th, 2011 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, bandung, books, jakarta, surabaya
Tropical Modernity, Life and Work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker | SUN Architecture
Recently, MovingCities received ‘Tropical Modernity, Life and Work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker‘ [SUN Architecture] in the mailbox [contact]. The book gives an interesting overview and insight into the life and work of the Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker (1882-1949), the Frank Lloyd Wright of Indonesia. The book is as a great introduction to projects such as Villa Isola [Bandung, 1933], Koloniale Bank [Surabaya, 1940] and Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij [Batavia/Jakarta, 1922]. read more »
China’s New Housing Agenda | publication
July 29th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: housing, jerusalem, publications, urbanism
Bezalel Papers on Architectures | issue#2, July 2011
If China will face a housing crisis in the future, it will be an affordable one. After decades of focusing on industrialization and urbanization, it may be well expected that in the coming decade the notion of “hybrid habitation” will become a new driver for China’s social-economical development. The new issue of Bezalel Papers on Architecture [issue#2] is out, including a text by MovingCities called China’s New Housing Agenda. read more »
