1. Lieven Nijs

        Bio
        Lieven Nijs is an architect who trained at Sint-Lucas Ghent. In 2003 he founded BLAFarchitecten together with architect Bart Van Den Driessche. He joined the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Ghent as a studio assistant in 2008, and has been part of the Ghent Quality Chamber for Architecture and Monuments since 2016, and the first city architect in Ghent in the capacity of vice-chairman since 2018. In his practice as well as in his teaching, research and quality control, he is interested in the design aspects of sustainability. For BLAF he is mainly responsible for the architecture and urban design of public-private projects and social housing. Together with Maarten Van Den Driessche he set up the research seminar ‘Brick Wall City’ and conducted an exploratory research ‘Pilot Projects in Climate Districts’, commissioned by the Flemish Government.
        [last updated in 2020]

      2. issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           
      1. 06/10/2024
        Call for Submissions

        Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism

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      2. 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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      3. 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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      4. 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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      5. 21/02/2023
        Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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      6. 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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      7. 02/12/2022
        Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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      8. 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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      9. 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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      10. 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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