François Claessens

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1. François Claessens
  Bio
  François Claessens graduated in architecture at Delft University of Technology and in philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked for various architecture offices in the Netherlands. In 2005 he finished his doctoral research on the architectural discourse on the city in Germany around 1900. He is now an associate professor of architectural design at Delft University of Technology. In 2007 Claessens was affiliated as a research fellow with the German Institute for Art History in Paris.
  [last updated in 2008]
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 75
  25 years of Critical Reflection on Architecture
  2008
  Abstract
  OASE, Journal for Architecture is celebrating its 25th anniversary. During this time, OASE has evolved into an international professional journal in which a reflective and critical approach to …
  
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  Introduction
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  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 71
  Urban Formation and Collective Spaces
  2006
  Abstract
  In 1992 the Spanish architect Manuel de Solà-Morales already suggested in OASE that the civic, architectural, urban and morphological richness of a contemporary city resides in the collective spaces …
  
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  Reinventing Architectural Monumentality
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  OASE 59
  Scratching the Surface
  2002
  Abstract
  This issue of OASE takes for its title Scratching the Surface. Its intent, in the broadest sense, is to address the relationship (in architecture) between surface and visuality, surface and image, …
  
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  Architecture of Representative and the Civil Public Sphere
  The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of German Civic Art
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  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 57
  1970s Revisited
  2001
  
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  Runcorn in Memoriam
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  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 52
  Consumption and Territory
  1999
  Abstract
  In the past few decades, there has been a process of de-institutionalization of the housing production in European countries with a strong social-democratic tradition. In such instances, the …
  Editors of this issue
  François Claessens, Wouter Deen, Marcel Musch, Lara Schrijver
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Vincent Kompier, Marcel Musch, Ivan Nio, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  François Claessens, Lara Schrijver, Marcel Musch, Wouter Deen
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  Editorial
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  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 49–50
  Convention
  1998
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Vincent Kompier, Marcel Musch, Ivan Nio, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
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  Quiet objectivity
  The reception of the Classical tradition in German architecture, 1890-1920
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  issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 44
  Venetiaanse Perspectieven
  1996
  Editors of this issue
  François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Mikel van Gelderen, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Marcel Musch, Sanna Schuiling, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
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  Stenen taal
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  issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 42
  Over stijl
  1995
  Editors of this issue
  François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Mikel van Gelderen, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Marcel Musch, Michiel Riedijk, Sanna Schuiling, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Willem Sulsters
  
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  Editoriaal
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1. 23/10/2024
  Call for Abstracts OASE 122
  Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024
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2. 06/10/2024
  Call for Submissions
  Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
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3. 21/11/2023
  call for conversations OASE 118
  Rationalism Revisited
  
  This Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.
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4. 11/11/2023
  call for abstracts OASE 119
  Review of Jean-Louis de Cordemoy's Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture in Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences & des beaux-arts, September 1706
  Book Reviews
  From Words to Buildings
  In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.
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5. 06/03/2023
  BK Talks on 16 March 2023 about 'Design with Soil: Urbanizing the living surface'
  On 16 March 2023 the TU Delft will host a debate inspired by OASE 110.
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6. 21/02/2023
  Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations
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7. 31/01/2023
  Now available: OASE 113. Authorship
  What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular authorship.
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8. 02/12/2022
  Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL
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9. 24/11/2022
  Call for Abstracts OASE 116
  Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)
  ‘The Architect as Public Instellectual’
  Deadline: 23-12-2022
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10. 15/10/2022
  Now available: OASE 112. Ecology & Aesthetics
  Through a series of concrete projects, the contributions in this issue explore the field of tension between architectural aesthetics and issues of energy, technology and materiality. Ecological practices in architecture must not only be effective in providing solutions, but inevitably raise questions of beauty, affection and perception as well.
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