1. Paola Vigano

        Bio
        Paola Viganò has a PhD in Architecture and is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne) where she heads the lab-U and the new interdisciplinary Habitat Research Centre. She is also professor at IUAV University Venice and guest professor in several international schools. In 2013 she has received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in France; in 2016 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCL; in 2017 the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture (Ultima Architectuur) and in 2018 the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale. From 1990 to 2014, together with Bernardo Secchi, she was in charge of Studio, working on numerous urban projects in Europe. Since 2015 StudioPaolaViganò has been working on urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe and has won several international competitions.
        [last updated in 2020]

      2. issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

             
        1. 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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        2. 21/02/2023
          Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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        3. 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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        4. 02/12/2022
          Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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        5. 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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        6. 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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        7. 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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        8. 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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        9. 01/04/2022
          Now available: sold-out OASE issues as e-book!

          To meet the demand for some populair sold-out editions of OASE, 5 issues have been scanned and re-released as e-books. It concerns OASE numbers 45, 54, 63, 65 and 78. These are for sale via nai010 Publishers for € 14,95 per issue.
          More sold-out issues will be released digitally in the near future, so keep an eye out for your favorite issue!

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        10. 23/01/2022
          Now available: OASE 110. The Project of the Soil

          This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices in exploring new agendas.

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