posts tagged ‘reviews’

Line13 Redux | review & student works

Line 13 Redux | workshop area: Longze station, Badaling expressway and its surroundings
Line 13 Redux | workshop area: Longze station, Badaling expressway and its surroundings

On June 19, three and a half weeks after MovingCities kickstarted research and design for Beijing’s short and intense two-day Line13 Redux-workshop, the students of the School of Architecture and Community Design (University of South Florida, Tampa) presented their first analysis and design proposals. An overview. read more »

Jakarta | presentations

Get Lost in Ordos | October 8, 2008
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. read more »

TURENSCAPE | lecture review

The Red Ribbon Park | TURENSCAPE (Image courtesy of Prof. Kongjian Yu)
The Red Ribbon Park | TURENSCAPE (Image courtesy of Prof. Kongjian Yu)

On September 30th Professor Kongjian Yu, founder and dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University and President of TURENSCAPE (Beijing Turen Design Institute) lectured at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
A review by Dan Handel. read more »

Cities of Dispersal

After the ‘What can we learn from China?’-lecture at ZZZ Gallery, Tel Aviv, February 29, 2008, we briefly met with Els Verbakel. Along with Rafi Segal, Els Verbakel edited the March 2008 issue of Architectural Design, entitled ‘Cities of Dispersal‘. Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, Cities of Dispersal explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. While functionally and programmatically, dispersed settlements operate as a form of urbanism, the place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated.

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