movingcities.org » embedded http://movingcities.org under re-construction!!! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA | 0300TV http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:00:02 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=340 China According to China | 0300TV Completely filmed by Diego Grass Puga | 0300TV before 2008’s Beijing Olympics and edited right after its ending, “CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA” presents a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation and history. This special isn’t an effort to portrait a certain scene [the profiles [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv/feed/ 1 CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA by 0300TV | interview http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv-video-interview/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv-video-interview/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:00:42 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=339 Diego Grass Puga | 0300TV “What is exactly happening here?” | movingcities.org Back in the pre-Olympic Beijing times, when Beijing’s urban development was in full force, fast forward, closely watched and mesmerizing, the paths of MovingCities and 0300TV crossed in a very fruitful and productive way. 0300TV is, to us without any doubt, the web’s [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/chatch-0300tv-video-interview/feed/ 1 Babel for Billionaires | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/babel-for-billionaires/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/babel-for-billionaires/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:20:20 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=338 Mark Magazine had in August/September its 15th issue out. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities contributed to it with an article on ORDOS100. From our ORDOS100 Embedded Architects-perspective, yes, we need the eye of a fly to see the multitude of architectures that grow in the Inner-Mongolian desert, this piece gives an insight in the development [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/babel-for-billionaires/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | out of Ordos http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-exit/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-exit/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:30:31 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=315 Saturday, June 28. Sunday, June 29. The last days of the second phase of ORDOS100. Day 4 continued with the critiques of the 36 proposals that were previously presented. Day 5, Mr. Cai, the client, and FAKE Design offered the architects a late afternoon dinner, toasted around and wished them a good journey back home. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-exit/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | site visit http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-site-visit/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-site-visit/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:34:29 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=314 Friday, June 27. Day 3 of the second phase of ORDOS100. The 36 architects that presented their proposals on the first day received their critiques. The others lounged in the hotel or went for a site visit. Mónica Carriço | movingcities joined the desert trip visiting the site with Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-phase2-site-visit/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | presentation phase II http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase2-2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase2-2/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:16:39 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=313 Thursday June 26. Day 2 of the second phase presentation of ORDOS100. Another 36 architects presenting another 36 villa’s. From 9 o’clock onwards the bombardment started, only to end 9 hours later. At the end of these two days, one starts wondering what one has seen, what the messages were that came through. One couldn’t [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase2-1/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | conclusion phase II http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase2/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:15:51 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=311 ORDOS100 concluded its third and last meeting. Between June 24 and June 29, the 72 international architecture offices of ORDOS100 phase II came back to Ordos, Inner Mongolia. movingcities attended this meeting, absorbing 72000 square meters of villa’s in five days, that is 600 square meters an hour. An impression of the opening evening. The [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase2/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | publication & update http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-publication-update/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-publication-update/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:15:54 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=277 Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes “ORDOS100: avant-garde architecture in the desert” on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short impression of the phase II meeting in Ordos and the site visit with the desert designers. At the edge of the site, the bus stopped and the architects flew out, all running in different directions, touching [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-publication-update/feed/ 1 ORDOS100 | Ordos City http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos-city-april-2008/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos-city-april-2008/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:44:28 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos-city-april-2008/ The ORDOS100-project is located in the Ordos Cultural Creative Industry Park and sits on a plot of 197 ha. This project is part of the planning of a new 155 sq kilometers city in Inner-Mongolia, planned from scratch for a population of 200,000 in the year 2020. An impression of a city under construction. Ordos [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos-city-april-2008/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | 100 architects site visit http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-site-visit/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-site-visit/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:27:57 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-site-visit/ Desert Dérive or Sand Situationism. The 100 architects involved in ORDOS100 visited the site on April 14. Ground has almost broken, trees have been planted, spring emerges and in comparison with our previous visit, sand has replaced snow. Ordos Masterplan Explanation | April 14, 2008 ORDOS100 Site Visit | April 14, 2008 Art studios by [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-site-visit/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | 100 architects in one room http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-in-one-room/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-in-one-room/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:21 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-in-one-room/ ORDOS100 is entering its next level. The architects involved in phase II gathered with the ones of phase I for a Sunday morning question and answer. 100 architects from 30 countries in one room in Ordos. An impression. Talks about sustainability, the project, landscape,… and strange things being said about the architects’ ego. Whatever, but [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/100-architects-in-one-room/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | presentation phase I http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase1/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase1/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:04:58 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase1/ A FAKE festival of forms. 28 presentations of 1000 square meters villas in one day. All to be built. By “the international architects”. Only in China. Only in Ordos. Almost live, the first echography of a cadavre exclusive in action. ORDOS100 | April 12, 2008 Pictures by Bert de Muynck & Mónica Carriço | movingcities.org

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-presentation-phase1/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 | conclusion phase I http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase1/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase1/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:12:52 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase1/ ORDOS100 held its second meeting. Between April 11 and April 16, 100 international architecture offices came to Ordos, in Inner Mongolia. movingcities attended this event, trying to grasp diversity, variety and similarity. An impression of the opening evening. The setting, the gathering, putting the models in place,… all had something that floated in-between an architectural [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100-conclusion-phase1/feed/ 0 ORDOS100 http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:27:21 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/ordos100/ Last weekend, January 25-27, Bert de Muynck | movingcities was invited by FAKE Design to attend the opening ceremony and start of the first phase of ORDOS100. 100 architects from 29 different countries and areas from Europe, America, Asia and Africa are invited to design a villa or public building with a floor area of [...]

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