1. Léa-Catherine Szacka

        Bio
        Léa-Catherine Szacka is lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD (the ‘Rotterdam studio abroad program’). Her research focuses on the history of architecture exhibitions and the history and theory of postmodern architecture. She is the author of Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (2016), for which she was awarded the SAH GB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 2017. She is also co-author of Le Concert: Pink Floyd à Venise (with Sara Marini and Samuel Lorain, 2017) and co-editor of Mediated Messages: Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture (with Véronique Patteeuw, 2018) and Concrete Oslo (with Erik Fenstad Langdalen and Andrea Pinochet, 2018). Szacka curated Effimero or the Postmodern Italian Condition part of Monditalia (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014). She sits on the editorial boards of Footprint: Delft Theory Review and Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
        [last updated in 2020]

      2. issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

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            • Léa-Catherine Szacka
             

            issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

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              • Léa-Catherine Szacka
               

              issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

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                • Léa-Catherine Szacka
                 
            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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