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a+t density series | book review

bert — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:38:11 +0000

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 [...]

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Shanghai | GoWest & Rockbund @HKU

movingcities — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:13:06 +0000

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 [...]

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Yona Friedman | book review

movingcities — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:04 +0000

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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Tropical Modernity | book review

movingcities — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:46:54 +0000

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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Xi’An | destroyed district(s)

movingcities — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:21:28 +0000

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 [...]

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7 books | in the movingcities mailbox

movingcities — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:59:06 +0000

Empires, Ruins + Networks | edited by Scott McQuire & Nikos Papastergiadis MovingCities loves books. We like to read, receive and review them. We buy them [first-hand, second-hand, from all kind of hands] and we get them. During the past months our mailbox [contact] digested 7 diverse titles. All dealing with topics we’re curious about: [...]

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Illegal Copying | publication

movingcities — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:00:35 +0000

Illegal Copying | Mark Magazine#24 [re-post] Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine ‘Illegal Copying’, an article about the phenomenon of the underground architectural booksellers and their trade in illegally copied architecture books, DVD’s and magazines. Location: Beijing, China. Original pirate material [back] online! Illegal Copying | Mark Magazine#24 [...]

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SARAI | publication

movingcities — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:04:30 +0000

Beijing, Life on the New Frontier | April 23, 2008 movingcities publishes “Moving Cities: Life on the New Frontier” in Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. SARAI is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, one of India’s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on [...]

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