posts tagged ‘publications’
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 »
JR | City Faces | publication
March 5th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: art, publications, shanghai 上海, urbanism
JR | City Faces | MARK Magazine#30
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with French photographer and artist – and recipient of the prestigious 2011 TED Prize – JR. The publication is a follow-up on last October’s encounter with the ‘artivist’ while he and his crew where working in and with the city of Shanghai 上海 on a project called The Wrinkles of the City 城市肌理. Now online. read more »
South Africa | Cape Town – by Mokena Makeka
March 2nd, 2011 • contributors, movingmemos, writings
Tags: cape town, publications, urbanism
Cape Town | January 6, 2011
“Cape Town’s physical identity as a city is a direct result of human intervention, namely architecture and how it collectively shapes and informs street life and the character of the city. With an abundance of historical architectural fabric in the central city, our buildings tell an interesting story of our past,” so it starts our guest contribution – ‘Architecture and the City’ – by Cape Town-based architect Mokena Makeka [Makeka Design Lab]. A 1000 words and 23 images is where our 2010-11 South African journey ends. read more »
Club Donny #6 | publication
February 24th, 2011 • 1 comment movingmemos, writings
Tags: fiction, publications, rotterdam, shanghai 上海
Club Donny#6 | 2011
Club Donny – a small-scale magazine edited as a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment – recently launched its sixth issue. Presenting a mix of photography and fiction, the current patch includes a contribution called ‘DAY 1125′ by Bert de Muynck | MovingCities. It can now be bought and/or freely downloaded. 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 »
