1. Nancy Meijsmans

        Bio
        Nancy Meijsmans is engineer-architect, urban planner and associated with osa (Urban Planning and architecture Research Group) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where she is preparing her PhD dissertation. From 2005 to 2009 she worked at eindhoven University of Technology, where she supervised a research project on regional development and the associated role of design as an exploratory and mediatory instrument. she recently took up the post of project manager for the scheldt quayside redevelopment within aG stadsplanning, antwerp’s autonomous public works department for urban planning.
        [last updated in 2009]

      2. 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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