posts tagged ‘architecture’
Évora | Quinta da Malagueira
October 3rd, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, evora, housing, lisbon
Quinta da Malagueira by Alvaro Siza | August 25, 2011
The Quinta da Malagueira housing project in Évora by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira [1933-...] is an architectural classic. Its grid of parallel rows of streets and alleys, back-to-back patio houses and system of raised concrete aqueducts – connecting the separate residential clusters together – are part of today’s textbook material on social housing. It is so classic, one tends to forget it exists for over thirty years, it still is inhabited and is evolving to a next stage of architectural adaptation. The adaptation [parking, paint and printed materials] of architectural austerity. read more »
Cascais | Estoril Sol Residence
October 1st, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, housing, lisbon
Estoril Sol Residence by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos | August 30, 2011
While on our way to the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, we passed along the Estoril Sol Residence, a 15 storey new housing complex with 110 dwellings, by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos. More background, pictures and video’s of the project via designboom, ArchDaily, Reynaers Aluminium and Joao Morgado. read more »
Cascais | Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
September 29th, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, exhibition, lisbon
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego by Eduardo Souto de Moura | August 30, 2011
While in Lisbon last month, MovingCities went on a drive to the nearby coastal town of Cascais. This with the purpose to visit the already much published Casa das Histórias Paula Rego [via ArchDaily, MIMOA, dezeen, wallpaper, Fernando Guerra, publico or blueprint] by the Pritzker-Prized Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. read more »
Hong Kong University | appointment
September 23rd, 2011 • movingmemos, works
Tags: architecture, hong kong 香港, lectures, projects, seminar, shanghai 上海
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 share this news and place special focus onto the upcoming ‘Under the Skin‘-fall lecture series, to be held at HKU in Shanghai. read more »
Paul Rudolph | Jakarta + Surabaya
July 27th, 2011 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, jakarta, surabaya
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 because they seem to be largely neglected by today’s architectural debate on sustainable structures. An introduction and a tale of two towers. read more »
