posts tagged ‘reviews’
Cities Without Ground | book review
January 7th, 2013 • 1 comment movingmemos, writings
Tags: books, hong kong 香港, reviews
Cities Without Ground | ORO Editions, 2012
Recently MovingCities received Cities Without Ground [April 2012, ORO Editions], a publication by Adam Frampton, Jonathan Solomon and Clara Wong. The subject is the city of Hong Kong 香港 and the publication is – as the subtitle suggests – more a Hong Kong guidebook than a pamphlet, manifesto or analysis of a larger urban trend. A book review. read more »
HKU Shanghai Study Center | Final Review
December 10th, 2012 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: hong kong 香港, maquettes, reviews, shanghai 上海
HKU Shanghai Study Center review | December 6, 2012
Last Thursday, the second-year architecture students at the HKU Shanghai Study Centre presented their final projects. Dealing with ‘Density and the City‘, the 30 students in the studios of Pascal Berger [HKU Shanghai Academic Director], Wang Fei 王飛 and Martine Vledder showed their design proposals, maquettes and thoughts of their 3-month stay in Shanghai 上海. read more »
Emergent Architectural Territories | book review
August 29th, 2012 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: books, reviews, urbanism
Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities | Birkhäuser, 2011
MovingCities received a copy of ‘Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities‘ [Birkhäuser, 2011] by prof. Peter G. Rowe [Harvard University]. The 200-page publication maps and describes the large development areas in big cities in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, as they are striking out into new territories. Both as an introduction to or overview of a multitude of large-scale projects in the East Asian region, the book clearly categorizes and discusses the emergence of large-scale urban constructs in the region.
A book review. read more »
Colonial Modern | book review
July 2nd, 2012 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: books, newtown, reviews, urbanism
Colonial Modern | black dog publishing, 2010
‘Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future’ is a highly recommended book by black dog publishing in 2010. It tells the story of architecture, urban and cultural development in Morocco and Algeria, focusing on the post-war and pre-independence period, and its influence on and relevance for European urbanization at the time. But it does much more than that. A review. read more »
Roberto Burle Marx | book review
June 12th, 2012 • 1 comment movingmemos, writings
Tags: books, reviews, tropical
Roberto Burle Marx - The Modernity of Landscape | Actar, 2011
MovingCities received a copy of “Roberto Burle Marx – The Modernity of Landscape” (ACTAR 2011). The 350-page publication is a insightful introduction to this great Brazilian landscape architect, poet, gardener, painter etc.. and the role of and design with vegetation in the tropical climate. At some points the book is repetitive, but a delicate graphical design and great images make up for this. A review. read more »
CAA Hangzhou School of Architecture | Review
May 30th, 2012 • movingmemos, works
Tags: hangzhou 杭州, maquettes, reviews
CAA Hangzhou | Thesis Design Studio Review, May 21-22, 2012
Last week, MovingCities was invited by Erhard An-He Kinzelbach [KNOWSPACE architecture + cities] to Hangzhou 杭州 to jury the final year students projects at the School of Architecture of China Academy of Art Hangzhou [CAA] 中国美术学院建筑艺术学院. Also on review were the student work developed by Studio 崔富得 and Studio Hao Ruan 阮昊 ＋ Devin Jernigan. read more »
HKU Shanghai | Final Review
May 4th, 2012 • movingmemos, works
Tags: hong kong 香港, maquettes, reviews, shanghai 上海
HKU Shanghai Final Review | April 25, 2012
About two weeks ago, the second-year architecture students at the HKU Shanghai Study Centre presented their final projects. Dealing with the theme of ‘Central City/Peripheral City‘, the 35 students in the studios of Pascal Berger [HKU Shanghai Academic Director], Wang Fei 王飛 and Michael Tunkey showed an impressive set of design proposals, maquettes, thoughts and overview of their 3-month stay in Shanghai 上海. read more »
