Mark Magazine has its 14th issue out. Bert de Muynck | movingcities contributed to it with an article on Beijing's Olympic Architecture. Throughout the past months the flood of article's on the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube delivered a particularly distorted image of the impact of the Olympic Games on the Chinese capital city. Focusing on a few lesser known Olympic Stadia might put Beijing's Olympic development ...
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.
Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "Making minced meat of memory" in the MUDOT Magazine. In a series of projects dealing with 'hutong hallucinations' the author mixes Beijing, Rem Koolhaas, Michel Houellebecq, Ou Ning, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ai Weiwei, Simone de Beauvoir and many others into the debate on Beijing's preservation. Prince Charles, unfortunately, launched his call to 'save the hutongs' too late to meet the deadline of the ...
Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "SOHO China's New Futurism" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short overview of past, present and future ambition of Beijing's biggest real-estate developers.
movingcities publishes "Moving Cities: Life on the New Frontier" in Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. SARAI is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, one of India’s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia.
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.
Mark Magazine has its 12th issue out. Bert de Muynck | movingcities contributed to it with an interview with Chinese architect-artist Ai Weiwei. In the interview Ai Weiwei looks back on his short but intense career as an architect.
Polarinertia, one of the webs' premier journals of nomadic and popular culture has a new issue online. movingcities contributed to it with the "Residual vs Icon"-photo series and a short observation on the strange building biotopes that surround Beijing's large construction sites.
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