movingcities.org » architecture http://movingcities.org under re-construction!!! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Shenzhen Architecture Biennale | Exhibition http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:38:19 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=12149 Atelier Deshaus | SZHK Biennale 2011 The theme of the 2011 Shenzhen-Hongkong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is “architecture creates cities. cities create architecture”. Around this quasi-elusive statement, an arbitrary exhibition – curated by Terence Riley – was created. There were some good ideas and installations [our selection below], but all in all it felt vague. Loose. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/feed/ 0 Shenzhen Planning Building | Urbanus Architecture & Design http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:01:02 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11653 Shenzhen Planning Building by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 11, 2011 On Friday November 11, MovingCities paid a visit to the Shenzhen Planning Building 深圳规划大厦, designed by Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践. Located inside the building is the Shenzhen Center for Design 都市实践, a newly established NGO institute aiming to encourage and promote innovative [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/feed/ 0 OCT | Urbanus Architecture & Design http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:56:27 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11639 OCT Phase 2 by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 9, 2011 While in Shenzhen 深圳, MovingCities seems to be almost naturally pulled towards the OCT Loft-area. This creative precinct is the place where we meet people, where we drink and eat, shop, stroll and sometimes sleep. Recently, Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践 completed the [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/feed/ 0 Yona Friedman | book review http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yona-friedman-book-review-oct11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yona-friedman-book-review-oct11/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:04 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11165 MovingCities reviews "Yona Friedman - Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people" [ACTAR], a monograph on the work of Yona Friedman.

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yona-friedman-book-review-oct11/feed/ 0 Tropical Modernity | book review http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:46:54 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10967 MovingCities reviews "Tropical Modernity, Life and Work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker" [CJ van Dullemen, SUN Architecture], a book dealing with the work and life of the Dutch architect in the Dutch East Indies [Indonesia].

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/feed/ 0 Évora | Quinta da Malagueira http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/alvaro-siza-vieira-evora-aug11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/alvaro-siza-vieira-evora-aug11/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:57:10 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10916 MovingCities visits and provides background to the Quinta da Malagueira-project in Évora, masterplan and design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/alvaro-siza-vieira-evora-aug11/feed/ 0 Cascais | Estoril Sol Residence http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/goncalo-byrne-cascais-aug11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/goncalo-byrne-cascais-aug11/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:35:20 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10897 MovingCities visits the Estoril Sol Residence-project in Cascais, a 15 storey new housing complex designed by Portuguese architecture office Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos.

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/goncalo-byrne-cascais-aug11/feed/ 0 Cascais | Casa das Histórias Paula Rego http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/souto-de-moura-cascais-aug11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/souto-de-moura-cascais-aug11/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:30:56 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10869 MovingCities visits the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais. The museum is designed by 2011 Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/souto-de-moura-cascais-aug11/feed/ 0 Hong Kong University | appointment http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:39:35 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10840 Fall 2011 Special Lecture Series | HKU Shanghai Study Center, 2011 From September 2011 onwards, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities has been appointed ‘assistant professor’ at the The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Architecture, teaching the course on ‘Architecture Theory and History [20th Century]‘ at HKU Shanghai Study Centre. We’re very pleased to [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/feed/ 0 Paul Rudolph | Jakarta + Surabaya http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:12:30 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10564 Intiland Tower | Jakarta, June 24, 2011 It is a weird, amazing, thrilling and depressive feeling to encounter the office towers that the architect Paul Rudolph [1918-1997] has constructed in Jakarta and in Surabaya. Weird, amazing and thrilling, because one can see a glimpse of an architectural future where tropicalist thinking meets megastructural modernity; depressive [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/feed/ 0 The Xi’an trident | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/the-xian-trident-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/the-xian-trident-publication/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:35:47 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10331 Xi'an Expo | May 30, 2011 From a distance, the Exhibition Centre looks like a crescent wave, Poseidon’s trident or a triclops sea snake. Its straightforward design suggests that architectural labour and thinking was involved, but indeed it feels like a sketch on a napkin. DOMUS 949 [July/August 2011] is out, including a review by [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/the-xian-trident-publication/feed/ 0 CAA architecture jury | Hangzhou http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hangzhou-caa-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hangzhou-caa-june11/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:21:39 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9172 School of Architecture at CAA | June 2, 2011 On June 2, the School of Architecture of China Academy of Art Hangzhou [CAA] 中国美术学院建筑艺术学院 organized the presentation of the final year projects. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities was invited to participate in the jury of the studio’s of Erhard An-He Kinzelbach [KNOWSPACE architecture + cities] [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hangzhou-caa-june11/feed/ 0 Guangzhou | Opera House by Zaha Hadid http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-opera-house-by-zaha-hadid-dec10/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-opera-house-by-zaha-hadid-dec10/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:01:45 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7285 Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects | December 5, 2010 About a year after our first visit to the Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects, MovingCities returned to the site to check on the completed building. One doesn’t need an expert eye to understand that the finishing has been rushed so to coincide [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-opera-house-by-zaha-hadid-dec10/feed/ 0 Atelier Deshaus | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/atelier-deshaus-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/atelier-deshaus-publication/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:43:56 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7204 Atelier Deshaus | MARK Magazine#28 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architects Atelier Deshaus 大舍建筑. In the interview, the Shanghai-based office talks about their recently completed projects such as Jiading Kindergarten, Fuel Gas Management Station and Jiansu Software Park. Furthermore they talk about the [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/atelier-deshaus-publication/feed/ 0 Yinzhou New Town | 5 scattered houses http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yinzhou-5-scattered-houses-oct10/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yinzhou-5-scattered-houses-oct10/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:11:45 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6971 'Teahouse 1 – broken shadow' by Amateur Architecture Studio | October 9, 2010 In the center of Yinzhou New Town (Ningbo’s District) 宁波市鄞州区 a 25.7 hectares park is situated and in it five scattered houses are located around a lake. In the vicinity one also finds a government building and the Ningbo Historic Museum. The [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/yinzhou-5-scattered-houses-oct10/feed/ 0 NAi China Program | day III http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day3/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day3/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:36:31 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6846 Roombeek culture cluster by SeARCH | Enschede, September 1, 2010 After Rotterdam and Amsterdam, there was Enschede, located in the North-East of the Netherlands. The final day of the NAi China Program [day 1 & day 2] consisted of a visit to the city’s Roombeek area. Here, in May 2000, a catastrophic fireworks explosion occurred [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day3/feed/ 0 NAi China Program | day II http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day2/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:58:27 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6844 Amsterdam | August 31, 2010 On the second day of the NAi China Program [day 1] we visited a couple of classic housing projects [MVRDV's Parkrand, the 1990s KNSM-island developments,...] and large residential areas in transformation [Amsterdam West, areas along the riverbanks of the IJ,...], all located in Amsterdam. Background and snapshots. In the introduction [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day2/feed/ 0 NAi China Program | day I http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day1/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day1/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:20:28 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6840 NAi Archives | August 30, 2010 About one year ago, the Netherlands Architecture Institute [NAi] asked MovingCities if we would be interested to set up a so-called “NAi matchmaking”-program in China. The program is part of the new international agenda of the NAi and has the ambition to instigate collaborations between Dutch and Chinese architects. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/nai-china-program-day1/feed/ 2 Zhang Lei | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/zhang-lei-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/zhang-lei-publication/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:40:02 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6819 Zhang Lei (AZL) | Nanjing, March 2010 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architect Zhang Lei 张雷 [Atelier ZhangLei]. In the interview, the Nanjing-based architect talks about his recently completed projects such as Split House and Brick House. Furthermore talk went about Chinese architecture [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/zhang-lei-publication/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | Vanke Center by Steven Holl http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-holl-2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-holl-2/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:42:16 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6492 Vanke Center by Steven Holl Architects | June 28, 2010 While in Shenzhen (深圳) last week, MovingCities – along with Ole Bouman [director NAi] – paid a visit to Steven Holl’s Vanke Center. We were there last December to attend the opening of the “URBANISMS Steven Holl + Li Hu: 4 Projects in China“-exhibit [see [...]

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