Copy/Culture Symposium | lecture

September 21st, 2011 • events, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, copy, lectures, projects

Copy/Culture Symposium | Beijing, September 27, 2011

After a small summer-hiatus [Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam], MovingCities is back on track. We’re working on and cooking a few projects that will get shape, form and life in the coming few months. Keep checking us out here [or contact us]. We’re resuming blogging with an announcement of an upcoming MovingCities-lecture at the “Copy/Culture Symposium [模仿抄袭/文化©]” [organized by Premsela] in Beijing 北京 this upcoming Tuesday, September 27, 2011. read more »

Beijing | DOMUS architecture guide

April 12th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: beijing 北京, projects

Beijing National Library | July, 2010

A library, research center, art complex, jewelry garden and a former China-Japan Youth Exchange Center are few examples of the selection of the 40 projects in Beijing 北京 for the DOMUS iPhone-app. MovingCities stripped structures to their bare essence: location, description, architects info, construction year, architect birth year, services, opening hours, entrance fee, phone, public transit, address in Chinese. Check, double check and triple check. Its great when buildings become excel-sheets. Details and preview after the break. read more »

Beijing >> Shanghai

March 14th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, beijing 北京, on-the-move, shanghai 上海

Beijing - Shanghai | March 6, 2011

aerophotography is not a study of architectural details, but the exploration of urban districts. aerophotography is about cities flipping from being specific to generic to grainy. It isn’t about the silent and fixed gaze, but about turbulence, wings and windows. It is about the cities slowly disappearing while climbing, cruising and descending to reach another city, about seeing cities from your window-seat, about being up in the air from Beijing 北京 to Shanghai 上海. read more »

Architecture of Consequence | lecture & debate

December 15th, 2010 • movingmemos, works
Tags: beijing 北京, lectures, projects

Architecture of Consequence | NAi

The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) & MovingCities cordially invites you to the launch of Urban Flux magazine: “Architecture of Consequence“. 荷兰建筑师协会（NAi）与 MovingCities 诚邀您参加《城市空间设计》[总第16期]的推出活动]。This event will take place on next Saturday 18  at STUDIO X Beijing. 此活动将于2010年12月18日在 STUDIO X Beijing举行。

Ole Bouman [director NAi] will hold a lecture, followed by a debate and drinks. 届时，Ole Bouman [荷兰建筑师协会理事]将举行演讲，随后将进行相关讨论，并提供茶歇。Program starts at 4pm. Background after the break. read more »

Beijing | Gulou Hutong(s)

July 21st, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, demolition, urbanism

Area around Gulou Dajie subway station | May 20, 2010

A short trip down the metropolitan memory lane: in 2008 we published Making Minced Meat out of Memory [MONU Magazine] and in 2009 our Hutong Histories-triptych [ 1, 2 & 3]. It’s 2010 and the destruction of the Gulou area is still going strong. These days D+STREAM picks up Hutong Cemeteries; the New York Times reports on it [same old, same old] and MovingCities revisits the Gulou area. read more »