Paul Vermeulen

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1. Paul Vermeulen
  Bio
  Paul Vermeulen is architect and partner in the Ghent-based office De Smet Vermeulen. He is also a professor in Urban Architecture at Delft University of Technology. In 2011 he received the Flemish Culture award (architecture) for his contributions to architecture critique and culture.
  [last updated in 2021]
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 96
  Social Poetics
  The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
  2016
  Abstract
  OASE 96 examines the remarkable revival of architectural practices that focus on reuse and appropriation of buildings, environments and materials. To what extent can and will designers engage in …
  
  Marleen Goethals & Paul Vermeulen
  085
  Social Space Under Construction
  Urban Renewal in Broek, Vilvoorde
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  The design research in the multi-ethnic neighbourhood ofBroek in Vilvoorde attempts to make the larger waterfrontdevelopment more socially inclusive. This neighbourhood wasonce very active, but has …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 87
  Alan Colquhoun
  Architect, Historian, Critic
  2012
  Abstract
  OASE 87 is dedicated to the thinking and the position of British architect Alan Colquhoun, situated within today’s debate on architecture criticism. The issue presents not only the different …
  
  Paul Vermeulen
  113
  After the Avant-Garde
  113
  In his contribution, Belgian architect Paul Vermeulen compares Colquhoun’s critical discussion of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the text ‘Plateau Beaubourg’ (1977), with the text ‘Beaubourg or The …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 79
  The Architecture of James Stirling 1964–1992
  A Non-Dogmatic Accumulation of Formal Knowledge
  2009
  Abstract
  OASE 79 is devoted in its entirety to the architecture of the British architect James Stirling (1926–1992), who played a prominent role in the architecture discourse of the 1980s due to his striking …
  
  Paul Vermeulen
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  Inside the Magic Circle
  014
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 76
  Specificity
  2008
  Abstract
  What makes a building specific? What is the importance of a clear-cut relationship between architecture and its surroundings? What does the term ‘context’ mean for architecture in this day and age? …
  
  Paul Vermeulen
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  Domestic Containers
  060
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 60
  Urbanism Out of Town
  2002
  
  Paul Vermeulen
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  Countryside in the Nevelstad
  103
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 49–50
  Convention
  1998
  
  Henk de Smet, Paul Vermeulen
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  Character
  162
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
  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
  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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