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Posted onThu, 28 Jan 2016 Wed, 05 Jan 2022

China is a great place to cross paths with architects from all over the world, even if these encounters happen in the desert of Inner-Mongolia. Back in 2008, as part of theAi Weiwei/ Herzog & de Meuron -instigatedOrdos100project,MovingCitieshad the opportunity to interview Chilean architectAlejandro Aravena[Elemental] about his design for a1,000 square meter villa for low-budget billionairesinOrdos鄂尔多斯, China.Earlier this month,Alejandro Aravenawas announced the winner of the2016 Pritzker Prize. A good excuse for us to send our congratulations, dive into our archive and, for the first time, publish the edited version from our2008 double-interview.

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Posted onWed, 30 Dec 2015 Wed, 16 Nov 2022

Earlier this month,MovingCitiesflew fromShanghai上海toShenzhen深圳.In the past we have contextualized ouraerophotographyadventures by introducting a 24-year old Portuguese priest making real airplanes (from real paper) in 1709(here)or discussed the relation between aerophotography and the work German apothecary Julius Neubronner[1852-1932](here). This time around, we an introduceA. F. Mozhaisky[1825-1890]– an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, aviation pioneer, researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft(source).

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Posted onWed, 18 Nov 2015 Thu, 10 Nov 2022

“Three Pathways to Get Anywhere (Except When There Is a Dead End)” is a collection of essays, poems, and fragments that forms a constellation of a young architect’s reactions to East Asian cities, personal narratives of traveling solo, and musings on how the unique and foreign may or may not inhabit global practices.MovingCitiesis pleased to feature a fragment – dealing with the urban transformation ofShanghai上海– from this recently published book by Berlin-based architect and writerAnna Kostreva, edited in close collaboration with Joey Horan, designed byStudio YUKIKOand published byRough Beast.Info, fragments from anaccelerated city walk, pictures and preview after the break.

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Posted onMon, 26 Oct 2015 Fri, 11 Nov 2022

As part of the upcomingShanghai International Literary Festival 2015[programmewriterstickets]MovingCitieswill conduct a writing workshop, called “Paper skylines, a Shanghai workshop” onFriday November 6, 2015, from 3-5 pm atM on the BundinShanghai上海.Other writers, architects and scholars invited for theShanghai International Literary Festival 2015includeWAI Architecture Think Tank,Michael Meyer,Matjaž Tančič, aNorth Korea Panel of Specialists: From The Outside Looking Inand the outcome of theThat’s Shanghai: Erotic Fiction Competition.Info, flashback and preview after the break.

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Posted onThu, 21 May 2015 Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Recently, Birkhäuser published “The Colours of…“, a 376-page publication, including 250 color illustrations – byIwan Baan, Christian Richters,Roland HalbeandPhilippe Ruault-, described asa specifier of material, substance, light, texture, form and colour – and in the end of human emotion. […] Color is inextricably linked with architecture; as a design element and also as an inherent quality, it characterizes the shape and texture of the built fabric.Highlighting the work ofFrank O. Gehry,Jean Nouvel,Wang Shuand a handfull of other well-known architects,MovingCitiescontributed to “The Colours of…” with a 3,000 word essay – calledWang Shu, Translating tradition for modern times.Order here,GoogleBooks thereand preview after the break.

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Posted onWed, 06 May 2015 Fri, 26 May 2017

NAAM–NewArchitectureAssemblyMagazine – is a bilingual Farsi/English architecture and design magazine edited and published by thearchitecture studentsatUniversity of Tehran(Iran). Contributing to its most recent issue – now fully available onISSUU– and centered around the theme of ‘On the Edge of Architecture’,MovingCitieswrote a piece dealing with the transformation ofShanghai上海called “A Fantasy on the Fringe of the Future“.Continue reading “A Fantasy on the Fringe of the Future | NAAM publication”

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Posted onWed, 15 Oct 2014 Wed, 05 Jan 2022

Throughout the past decade, Portuguese artistVHILS– born Alexandre Farto[Lisbon, 1987]– has been making a name for himself by taking apart and reassembling found objects. He uses a multitude of materials and formats to voice his stance on the city, which he bases on his experience of living and working inShanghai上海,Moscow, New York, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Paris. VHILS now condenses his findings in his home townLisbon, drawing from his work to produce a collective memory of the city.MovingCitiespublished, in the October-November 2014 issue ofMark magazine #52, an interview with Portuguese street artist: read VHILS | Dissecting the City.

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