1. Frits Palmboom

        Bio
        Frits Palmboom studied at Delft University of Technology, worked as an urban designer for the city of Rotterdam and founded the current urban design studio Palmbout Urban Landscapes (1991). He was responsible for the IJburg Master Plan (Amsterdam, 1995) and the Belvedere project in Maastricht. He was a frequent guest lecturer and first professor at the Van Eesteren Chair (Delft University of Technology, 2013-2018). He published the books Doel en Vermaak inhet Konstruktivisme (1978), Rotterdam Verstedelijkt Landschap(1987), Drawing the Ground (2010), IJsselmeer, a Spatial Perspective(2017) and many articles on urbanism and landscape. His work hasbeen exhibited at various European universities (2003), at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2004) and at Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, 2019). He currently advises the municipality of Zaanstad on urban intensification, gives master classes at various design schools, and works on publications on urban design, landscape, design and drawing.

        [last updated in 2022]

      2. issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

         

        issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


          issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

             
        1. 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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        2. 11/11/2023
          call for abstracts OASE 119
          1. 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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        3. 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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        4. 21/02/2023
          Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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        5. 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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        6. 02/12/2022
          Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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        7. 24/11/2022
          Call for Abstracts OASE 116
          1. 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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        8. 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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        9. 23/05/2022
          Call for Abstracts OASE #115. Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe

          Call for Abstracts OASE #115 about “Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe”, written by Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe and Bernard Colenbrander. Deadline is June 19, 2022. Read the full text of the OASE #115 Call for Abstracts in the PDF.

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        10. 20/05/2022
          Now available: OASE 111. Staging the Museum

          Museums stage public encounters between visitors, objects and stories. This is not limited to a tour through the exhibition spaces, it starts already with monumental or ‘tresholdless’ entrances.

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