Hermann Czech
- Bio
Is a Viennese architect and writer. He studied architecture at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts (under Ernst Plischke), both in Vienna. From 1974 to 1980, he was an assistant to Hans Hollein and Johannes Spalt at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hermann Czech was a visiting professor there as well: and at Harvard University, ETH Zürich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has published numerous texts on architecture, especially on the work of Josef Frank and Adolf Loos. His architectural work has been awarded several national and international awards.
[last updated in 2014]
- 30/11/2020Call for Abstracts OASE #111
OASE editors Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels and Maarten Liefooghe wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #111. The theme is: Staging the Museum. Deadline is 10 January 2021, 18:00 CET. More information in the PDF file below.
- 30/11/2020Now available: OASE #107 The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism
This issue of OASE traces the role of drawing in landscape design and urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of the last 50 years, as well as recent concerns with ecological, metabolic and process-oriented questions.
- 16/07/2020Now available: OASE #106 Table Settings. Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt
> Positioning a new outlook on philosopher Hannah Arendt’s ideas, OASE #106 reveils how her writings very well can help us rethink architecture as a phenomenon and practice
> Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s remarkably spatial view on ‘the world and its inhabitants’
- 22/06/2020Call for Abstracts OASE #110
A Project of the Soil
Editors: David Peleman, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni, Elsbeth Ronner
- 28/04/2020Now available: OASE #105 Practices of Drawing
> Insight into the work of both historical and contemporary architects
> With a focus on beautiful architectural drawings over the past five centuries to grasp their role in design practice
> With drawings by George Aitchison, Heinrich Tessenow, El Lissitzky, Lina Bo Bardi and Tony Fretton
- 17/12/2019Call for Papers OASE #108
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
Editors: David Peleman, Jantje Engels, Christophe Van Gerrewey
“It is brilliant people say brilliant
while it’s mere dilettantism
What they touch becomes tasteless
always the most obvious
superficialities
even the most exalted starts to stink”
— Thomas Bernhard, Der Schein trügt, 1984
- 21/11/2019Call for Abstracts OASE #107
- OASE #107 The drawing in landscape architecture and urbanism
Editors: Bruno Notteboom, Frits Palmboom, Bart DecroosOASE invites everyone to read the Call for Abstracts for OASE #107.
We are interested in two kinds of contributions that each start from the drawing:1. Textual contributions: historical or theoretical papers about a (series of) drawing(s).Proposals contain one image and an abstract of 300 words.
2. Visual contributions: a specific (series of) drawing(s) from personal/actual practice.These proposals contain the drawing(s) themselves and a caption of a maximum of 300 words through which the proposal is situated within the theme of the issue.
Proposals must be submitted via info@oasejournal.nl by 20 December 2019 and contain a title and CV (name, email address, affiliation and a bio of maximum 150 words). Proposals must be submitted in Dutch or English.
Read the Call for detailed information.
- 29/10/2019Presentation OASE #104
On 25 November 2019 OASE #104 will be presented at the architecture school La Cambre in Brussel, Belgium.
- 29/10/2019Now available: OASE #104 The Urban Household of Metabolism
> Unique OASE issue on locations of metabolism that kept communities urban households in order.
> With contributions by: Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk; Ben Vandenput; Koenraad Danneels; Julia von Mende; Dagmar Pelger & Emily Kelling; Ludo Groen; Nitin Bathla; Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone & Marco Ranzato; Diana Soeiro; Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen & Maximiliaan Royakkers; Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo; Riccardo M. Villa en Hans Vandermaelen.
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