1. Han Meyer

        Bio

        Han Meyer graduated as an urban designer from Delft University of Technology and subsequently worked at the Department of Physical Planning and Urban Renewal in Rotterdam for ten years. He has been working at Delft University of Technology since 1990, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis De stad en de haven (City and Port) in 1997. He became professor of urban design - theory & methods in 2001. His research has two emphases: the programme Delta Urbanism explores new relationships between engineering and urban design; the programme De kern van de stedenbouw in het perspectief van de 21e eeuw (Essential Urban Design from a 21st-Century Perspective) has yielded a four-volume book series of which the last instalment Het programma en gebruik van de stad (The programme and use of the city) was published in 2014. 

        [last updated in 2013]

      2. issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


          issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

             

            issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


            issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

               
          1. 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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          2. 21/02/2023
            Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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          3. 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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          4. 02/12/2022
            Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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          5. 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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          6. 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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          7. 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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          8. 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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          9. 01/04/2022
            Now available: sold-out OASE issues as e-book!

            To meet the demand for some populair sold-out editions of OASE, 5 issues have been scanned and re-released as e-books. It concerns OASE numbers 45, 54, 63, 65 and 78. These are for sale via nai010 Publishers for € 14,95 per issue.
            More sold-out issues will be released digitally in the near future, so keep an eye out for your favorite issue!

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          10. 23/01/2022
            Now available: OASE 110. The Project of the Soil

            This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices in exploring new agendas.

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