posts tagged ‘books’
a+t density series | book review
January 27th, 2012 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: books, housing
This is Hybrid & Density is Home | a+t architecture publishers
A couple of weeks ago, MovingCities received two books from a+t architecture publishers: This is Hybrid and Density is Home. The last publication presents 37 projects on collective housing, while the first, featuring a preface by Steven Holl, presents itself as the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings, an analysis of mixed-use buildings and a showcase of architecture build up by accounting books. read more »
Shanghai | GoWest & Rockbund @HKU
November 5th, 2011 • cities, events, movingmemos
Tags: books, lectures, shanghai 上海
Fall 2011 | Under the Skin, Special Lecture Series | HKU Shanghai Study Center, 2011
This week, two lectures are scheduled as part of the ‘Under the Skin‘ lecture series at Hong Kong University’s Shanghai Study Center. On Monday November 7, Daan Roggeveen from the GoWest-project will talk about their recently published book “How the City Moved to Mr Sun” and on Thursday November 10 Mark Randel (David Chipperfield Architects) will discuss the Rockbund project and the meaning of historic building fabric in our cities. 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 »
Xi’An | destroyed district(s)
June 13th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: books, demolition, xi'an 西安
Xi'An erased | May 31, 2011
‘The High Price of the New Beijing‘ by Ian Johnson was just published in The New York Review of Books. In the piece, he assesses about six books on Beijing 北京 – all dealing with urban planning, art, destruction, architecture and urban renewal. A must read.
We’re reporting from Xi’an 西安 and on an encounter with local residents. read more »
