posts tagged ‘rotterdam’

Club Donny #6 | publication

Club Donny#6 | 2011
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 »

NAi China Program | day I

NAi Archives | August 30, 2010
NAi Archives | August 30, 2010

About one year ago, the Netherlands Architecture Institute [NAi] asked MovingCities if we would be interested to set up a so-called “NAi matchmaking”-program in China. The program is part of the new international agenda of the NAi and has the ambition to instigate collaborations between Dutch and Chinese architects. One year of talking, working, interviewing, plotting and scheming later the NAi invited, in September 2010, a select group of Chinese architect for a study trip to the Netherlands. Info and impressions after the break. read more »

Rotterdam | NAi exhibitions

Architecture of Consequence lecture by NAi director Ole Bouman | February 18, 2010
Architecture of Consequence lecture by NAi director Ole Bouman | February 18, 2010

Thursday February 18, the Netherlands Architecture Institute [NAi] held a pre-opening of the ‘Disputed City’an exhibition about the outcry architecture can cause. This was followed by a lecture by NAi-director Ole Bouman on the ‘Architecture of Consequence‘, the theme of another exhibit, opening the following day. Both measure the effect of architecture on mankind. read more »

Rotterdam | Central Station

Rotterdam Central Station | February 18, 2010
Rotterdam Central Station | February 18, 2010

Do construction sites look different from one culture to another? Can one, after wandering around on them, define those characteristics that distinguish, lets say, a Chinese from a Dutch construction site? Should we look at the differences in size, location, density of man and materials, or at similarities such as concrete, steel and fences? read more »