posts tagged ‘publications’
Design 360° | publication
January 18th, 2012 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: guangzhou 广州, publications
City x People x Design | Design360 issue 37, January 2012
The Guangzhou 广州-based magazine Design 360° has always been a favorite bilingual [CN-EN] periodical of MovingCities. The first issue of 2012 has City x People x Design 城市•人•设计 as its theme. For our contribution we went in a dialogue with architect Zhang Ke 张轲 from standardarchitecture 标准营造. read more »
Preservation Playground | publication
January 12th, 2012 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: construction, demolition, publications, shanghai 上海
Preservation Playground | MARK Magazine#35
In Baoshan, a district on the northern outskirts of Shanghai 上海 known for its steel factories and shipyards, lays the Wendao Garden 闻道园. This garden covers an area of over 400 hectares and is a place where ancient houses from the nearby provinces of Anhui, Jianxi and Zhejiang are brought in and reconstructed. Last summer MovingCities visited the place and now MARK magazine published the story. Preservation Playground is online. read more »
China’s New Housing Agenda | publication
July 29th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: housing, jerusalem, publications, urbanism
Bezalel Papers on Architectures | issue#2, July 2011
If China will face a housing crisis in the future, it will be an affordable one. After decades of focusing on industrialization and urbanization, it may be well expected that in the coming decade the notion of “hybrid habitation” will become a new driver for China’s social-economical development. The new issue of Bezalel Papers on Architecture [issue#2] is out, including a text by MovingCities called China’s New Housing Agenda. read more »
The Xi’an trident | publication
July 20th, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, publications, xi'an 西安
Xi'an Expo | May 30, 2011
From a distance, the Exhibition Centre looks like a crescent wave, Poseidon’s trident or a triclops sea snake. Its straightforward design suggests that architectural labour and thinking was involved, but indeed it feels like a sketch on a napkin. DOMUS 949 [July/August 2011] is out, including a review by Bert de Muynck | MovingCities of the work of plasma studio for the Xi’an International Horticultural Expo 2011. The Xi’an trident is now online. read more »
7 books | in the movingcities mailbox
May 23rd, 2011 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: books, publications
Empires, Ruins + Networks | edited by Scott McQuire & Nikos Papastergiadis
MovingCities loves books. We like to read, receive and review them. We buy them [first-hand, second-hand, from all kind of hands] and we get them. During the past months our mailbox [contact] digested 7 diverse titles. All dealing with topics we’re curious about: urbanism, architecture, media, crisis, Beijing 深圳, construction and urban screens. It’s thank-you time to Scott McQuire, Xuefei Ren and Josep Lluís Mateo for sending, and Archined for the opportunity of reviewing. read more »
