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 the Ai Weiwei / Herzog & de Meuron -instigated Ordos100 project, MovingCities had the opportunity to interview Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena [Elemental] about his design for a 1,000 square meter villa for low-budget billionaires in Ordos 鄂尔多斯, China.

Alejandro Aravena Pritzker Prize 2016 | Ordos100 interview movingmaster

MovingCities contextualizes aerophotography or our aerial photography adventures by introducing A. F. Mozhaisky [1825-1890] - an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, aviation pioneer, researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft.

Shanghai >> Shenzhen | aerophotography movingmaster

MovingCities publishes a fragment from "Three Pathways to Get Anywhere (Except When There Is a Dead End)" [Rough Beast, 2015], a book by Anna Kostreva, edited in close collaboration with Joey Horan, designed by Studio YUKIKO.

Three Pathways to Get Anywhere by Anna Kostreva movingmaster

As part of M Shanghai International Literary Festival 2015, MovingCities conducted a writing workshop entitled 'Paper skylines, a Shanghai workshop' at M on the Bund in Shanghai 上海.

M Shanghai Litfest 2015 | workshop movingmaster

MovingCities contributed a 3,000 word essay 'Wang Shu, Translating tradition for modern times' in 'The Colours of...' publication by Birkhäuser, 2015. Including illustrations by Iwan Baan, Christian Richters, Roland Halbe and Philippe Ruault.

The Colours of…. | Birkhäuser publication movingmaster

NAAM – New Architecture Assembly Magazine – is a bilingual Farsi/English architecture and design magazine edited and published by the architecture students at University of Tehran (Iran). Contributing to its most recent issue – now fully available on ISSUU – and centered around the theme of ‘On the Edge of Architecture’, MovingCities wrote a piece …

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A Fantasy on the Fringe of the Future | NAAM publication movingmaster

Throughout the past decade, Portuguese artist VHILS – 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 in Shanghai 上海, …

Continue reading "VHILS | Dissecting the City | MARK magazine#52"

VHILS | Dissecting the City | MARK magazine#52 movingmaster