1. Maarten Van Den Driessche

        Bio
        Maarten Van Den Driessche has been a professor of theory and methodology at Ghent University since 2018. His research is situated in the field of design theory, building typology and public commissioning. Maarten is a founding member of lab A and has led several research projects in this field. His publications include De school als ontwerpopgave: Schoolarchitectuur in Vlaanderen 1995-2005 (with Bart Verschaffel, 2005) Robbrecht and Daem Architects: An Architectural Anthology (2017). He is co-curator of the exhibition ‘Wonen in Diversiteit’ (2017). Together with Lieven Nijs, he organised the research seminar ‘Brick Wall City’, in which they conducted an exploratory study on ‘Pilot Projects in Climate Districts’, commissioned by the Flemish Government.
        [last updated in 2020]

      2. issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

             
        1. 23/10/2024
          Call for Abstracts OASE 122

          Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024

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        2. 06/10/2024
          Call for Submissions

          Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism

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        3. 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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        4. 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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        5. 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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        6. 21/02/2023
          Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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

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        9. 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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        10. 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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