posts tagged ‘jakarta’
Jakarta >> Bandung
December 9th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: bandung, jakarta, on-the-move
Jakarta - Bandung | November 26, 2011
During weekends, the road from Jakarta to Bandung can be jammed. Many people had warned us: it might take somewhere between 2 and 6 hours to make the 120 kilometer trip. Reason for the city’s popularity is not only its distinctly milder climate, but also the plethora of factory outlet stores that fill the city. People don’t go to see Tropical Modernity during weekends, but we did. MovingCities was lucky, and in the good hands of Xtrans, a “Point to point (shuttle)”, in itself an almost self-contradictory on-time shuttle service, connecting the capital with a creative city in the making. read more »
Jakarta >> Bali
December 7th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, jakarta, on-the-move
Jakarta - Bali | November 21, 2011
In the second half of November, MovingCities was back in Indonesia. On the agenda a couple of disclosed meetings, a lot being on-the-move, spending few days in Jakarta and connecting with old and future friends. The results? Pay attention to future publications and projects on this site. For now, time for flying, from Jakarta to Denpasar (the province capital of Bali) and aerophotography. 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 »
Paul Rudolph | Jakarta + Surabaya
July 27th, 2011 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, jakarta, surabaya
Intiland Tower | Jakarta, June 24, 2011
It is a weird, amazing, thrilling and depressive feeling to encounter the office towers that the architect Paul Rudolph [1918-1997] has constructed in Jakarta and in Surabaya. Weird, amazing and thrilling, because one can see a glimpse of an architectural future where tropicalist thinking meets megastructural modernity; depressive because they seem to be largely neglected by today’s architectural debate on sustainable structures. An introduction and a tale of two towers. read more »
Jakarta >> Surabaya
July 15th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, jakarta, surabaya
Surabaya, Indonesia | July 4, 2011
It is always dangerous to draw conclusions from capital cities. The pressure from politics, foreign and domestic companies, even from local and international cultural critics,… all come into play when dealing with cities such Brussels, Beijing 北京, Johannesburg or Stockholm. If Jakarta is all about traffic jams, sheds, skylines and shopping-malls, how would the rest of the Indonesian cities look like? On July 4, MovingCities took a one hour flight from Jakarta to Surabaya, a 3 million-inhabitants port city, capital of the province of East Java and the main seaport and commercial center in the eastern region of Indonesia.
aerophotography – cities from the cabin. read more »
