movingcities.org » jakarta http://movingcities.org under re-construction!!! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Jakarta >> Bandung http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bandung-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bandung-nov11/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:00:03 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11885 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bandung-nov11/feed/ 0 Jakarta >> Bali http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bali-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bali-nov11/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:00:40 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11878 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-bali-nov11/feed/ 0 Tropical Modernity | book review http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:46:54 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10967 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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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/tropical-modernity-review-oct11/feed/ 0 Paul Rudolph | Jakarta + Surabaya http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:12:30 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10564 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/paul-rudolph-indonesia-july11/feed/ 0 Jakarta >> Surabaya http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-surabaya-july11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-surabaya-july11/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:37:20 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9458 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-surabaya-july11/feed/ 0 Jakarta | crinkling center http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-central-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-central-june11/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:12:53 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9412 Jakarta | June 26, 2011 Wall Scraper Syndicate, tagged someone on a facade in Central Jakarta. On a recent sweltering Sunday Morning MovingCities traversed, by foot and tuktuk, the administrative and political heart of the city, acting like the imaginary City Scraper Syndicate. When wandering around in the periphery of the landmark buildings (the National [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-central-june11/feed/ 0 Jakarta | slow skyline http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-slo-skyline-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-slo-skyline-june11/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:30:16 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9375 Jakarta | June 25, 2011 When MovingCities landed in Jakarta on June 22, the city celebrated its 484th birthday. In the three years that passed since our last visit, the city’s skyline has barely changed. Steady, but not spectacularly. Impressions from a colossally slow skyline city. Three years ago, when standing on Jakarta’s rooftops we [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-slo-skyline-june11/feed/ 0 Jakarta | ‘Rumah Rumah Tanpa Pintu’ opening http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-opening-july11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-opening-july11/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:23:07 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9348 Rumah Rumah Tanpa Pintu | July 1, 2011 “For Indonesian architects, a house is usually their first project, the first experiment, the first chance to make a built work. [...] By removing the client out of this context, we enlarge the room to explore architecture.” So states Danny Wicaksono in his curatorial intentions for the [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-opening-july11/feed/ 1 Jakarta | ‘Rumah Rumah Tanpa Pintu’ exhibition http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-exhibit-july11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-exhibit-july11/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:22:49 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9262 Rumah Rumah Tanpa Pintu | jongArsitek! exhibition Rumah Rumah Tanpa Pintu – Houses Without Doors – is an exhibition showcasing the investigation of 11 young Indonesian architects into the subject. Curated by Danny Wicaksono [Studio Dasar & founder of jongArsitek!] the exhibit opens today, July 1 at Dia.Lo.Gue Art Space in South Jakarta and runs [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jongarsitek-exhibit-july11/feed/ 0 Jakarta | jungle jazz http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jungle-jazz-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jungle-jazz-june11/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:10:13 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9259 Setiabudi, Jakarta | June 23-25, 2011 MovingCities resides the coming weeks in Jakarta and beyond. ‘Welcome to the concrete jungle’, our cab driver told us when driving in the middle of the night from the airport to our hotel. In the heart of this jungle lays the Setiabudi-district. A hip and distinct location, said the [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-jungle-jazz-june11/feed/ 0 Green and Tidy | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/green-and-tidy-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/green-and-tidy-publication/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:44:22 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=3890 Puri Indah by mamostudio | Mark Magazine#21 In Mark Magazine #21 (August-September 2009), Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published a review of the Puri Indah House by the Jakarta-based architecture office mamostudio. “Green and Tidy” is now online. Also included in the aforementioned New Indonesian Architecture-publication [in SPACE#498], this review in Mark #21 [check ArchDaily [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/green-and-tidy-publication/feed/ 0 New Indonesian Architecture | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/new-indonesian-arch-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/new-indonesian-arch-publication/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:53:20 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=3445 New Indonesian Architecture | SPACE #498 The 498th issue of South-Korean architecture magazine SPACE features a special on New Indonesian Architecture. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities wrote the introduction essay and selected recent works by Studio Tonton, mamostudio, 12AKITEK and Ahmad Djuhara. Text and images now online! New Indonesian Architecture | SPACE #498 Based on [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/new-indonesian-arch-publication/feed/ 1 Jakarta | urban snapshots VI http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-6/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-6/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:43:32 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=402 Jakarta | October 14, 2008 Jakarta, October 10-15. A last series of urban snapshots, Jakarta as seen from and experienced by roaming its rooftops. Standing high-above the city, miniaturizing and monotoring the metropolis, adding a multitude of perspectives to an urban setting that now has become strangely familiar, but constantly unrecognizable, to me, I couldn’t [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-6/feed/ 1 Jakarta | urban snapshots V http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-5/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-5/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:44:15 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=394 Jakarta | October 14, 2008 Jakarta, October 14. No better way to move through Jakarta than on a motorcycle. On our way to Trisakti University, Danny Wicaksono drove through little alleys, over highway intersections, in-between financial district and along residential compounds. From the back of the motorcycle I started scanning the city, at once hectic, [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-5/feed/ 0 Jakarta | urban snapshots IV http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-4/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-4/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:54:40 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=362 Jakarta | October 8, 2008 Jakarta, October 8-12. Crisscrossing Jakarta and spending hours moving through the city in-between seeing Architecture. Measuring the size and intensity, the diversity and flow of the metropolis, while taking notes and trying to make sense out of all that is moving. After a couple of days in the city, it [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-4/feed/ 0 Jakarta | presentations http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-presentations/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-presentations/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:50:51 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=365 Get Lost in Ordos | October 8, 2008 The invitation for Bert de Muynck | MovingCities to come to Jakarta was made possible by the Indonesian Institute of Architects (IAI). Next to visiting some of the entries for this years’ IAI Awards 2008, and being part of the jury, two lectures were given. 2 Lectures [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-presentations/feed/ 2 Jakarta | urban snapshots III http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-3/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-3/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:41:08 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=344 Jakarta | October 7, 2008 Jakarta, October 6-7. Two walks, two heights, two different cities. Two of the unlimited amount of cities that Jakarta has given birth to in its urban evolution. It would be too easy, after these few days, to describe Jakarta as a place where architectural adjacencies are the norm, a city [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-3/feed/ 0 Jakarta | urban snapshots II http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-2/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:42:55 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=342 Jakarta | October 5, 2008 Jakarta, October 5. A journey into the heart of Jakarta’s public transport system. Crossing the city with TransJakarta, the city’s rapid bus transit system. Currently it has 7 lines, while 32 are said to be under construction. Jakarta is a city without any subway network, so rapid bus transport is [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-2/feed/ 2 Jakarta | urban snapshots I http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-1/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-1/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:17:53 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=341 View from the Four Seasons | Jakarta, October 4, 2008 On Friday October 3, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a two weeks work and research stay. How does the fourth largest urban area in the world looks like? How does it function? What is the state of the city in [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jakarta-urban-snapshots-1/feed/ 0 Mediocrity and the Metropolis | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/mediocrity-and-the-metropolis/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/mediocrity-and-the-metropolis/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:43:00 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=310 JongArsitek Vol.4 | Architecture Magazine from Jakarta (click to download PDF) Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes “Mediocrity and the Metropolis” in JongArsitek. JongARSITEK! is a free architectural e-magazine made by some young Indonesian architects including Danny Wicaksono, whom we met in the context of ORDOS100. Most of the articles are still in Bahasa Indonesia [...]

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