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Mark Magazine has in April/May 2009 its 19th issue out. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities contributed to it with an interview with the Huangzhou based Chinese architect Wang Shu (Amateur Architecture Studio) called "Local Hero".

Following up on part one of the interview with Professor Peter G. Rowe, the second half is directed towards understanding the mechanisms of the urban development that stem out of the Asian expanding metropolitan environment. Thereby questioning the notion of east-west and import-export relations in the field of architecture and urbanism, Peter Rowe reflects upon the urban development of Shanghai, emerging new forms of engagement amongst Chinese architects ...

In his second dispatch, architect Dan Handel interviews Professor Peter G. Rowe. By providing insight into his study of the contemporary city in the Asian context Professor Rowe reflects on today's development of research, understanding, communication and analysis of the metropolitan environment. The interview took place in Professor Rowe's office at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, on the 29th of October.

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 of each character are quite diverse] but to establish four issues that every Chinese architect has to deal with in ...

“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 premier architectural television channel. Ran from Chile, the ass of the world as architect/director Diego Grass Puga described ...

movingcities interviewed Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal on their new project, 'Decolonizing Architecture'. Set up in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, and produced by the Haudenschild Foundation, the project attempts to use architecture as an “arena of speculation” about possible futures of Palestine.

Bert de Muynck | movingcities interviewed professor Moshe Zwarts, from Zwarts & Jansma, on the plans his office developed for a city under Amsterdam.