posts tagged ‘interviews’
Major Forces | an interview with Sun Jiwei
May 2nd, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: interviews, jiading 嘉定区, publications, shanghai 上海
Major Forces | Sun Jiwei | MARK Magazine#31
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Sun Jiwei 孙继伟, District Mayor of Shanghai Jiading District People’s Government [Jiading New City 嘉定区]. Currently Sun Jiwei 孙继伟 is fully engaged in public administration and plotting the future of a district with 1.2 million inhabitants, about an hour’s drive from the heart of Shanghai. Jiading is no Curitiba, Bogotá or Ljubljana, where mayors with architectural aspirations – Jaime Lerner, Enrique Peñalosa and Zoran Janković, respectively – have been given mandates by the people. In Jiading, as in towns and cities all over China, the mayor serves the People’s Government. Interview now online. read more »
Atelier Deshaus | publication
November 29th, 2010 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, interviews, jiading 嘉定区, publications, shanghai 上海
Atelier Deshaus | MARK Magazine#28
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architects Atelier Deshaus 大舍建筑. In the interview, the Shanghai-based office talks about their recently completed projects such as Jiading Kindergarten, Fuel Gas Management Station and Jiansu Software Park. Furthermore they talk about the local Shanghainese building culture, their desire to take it slow, the reality of letting-go, their traditional-hybrid approach and their believe that architecture should be about progressive spatial experiences. Now online. read more »
Zhang Lei | publication
September 24th, 2010 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, interviews, nanjing 南京, publications
Zhang Lei (AZL) | Nanjing, March 2010
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architect Zhang Lei 张雷 [Atelier ZhangLei]. In the interview, the Nanjing-based architect talks about his recently completed projects such as Split House and Brick House. Furthermore talk went about Chinese architecture in the 1980s, CIPEA, and his desire to become more middle of the road and keeping his work under control. Now online. read more »
XU Tiantian | publication
June 22nd, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, beijing 北京, interviews, publications
Xu Tiantian (DnA) | Songzhuang artists’ residence
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architect XU Tiantian 徐甜甜 [DnA_Design and architecture]. The talk gave some background to and insight in one of her recently completed projects: the Songzhuang artists’ residence. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the residences (20 living and working units) are organized in an intriguing play of stacked boxes. Now online. read more »
Learning from CCTV | publication
March 10th, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, beijing 北京, interviews, publications
Learning from CCTV | An Interview with Rory McGowan | Mark Magazine#24
In Mark Magazine #24 (February-March 2010), Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published an interview with Beijing-based structural engineer Rory McGowan [ARUP and ARUP in Beijing]. “Learning from CCTV | an interview with Rory McGowan” is now online. read more »
