Sami Rintala is an architect and an artist with a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki (Finland) 1999. With architect office Casagrande & Rintala, he produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world. In 2008, Rintala started a new architect office with Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson, called Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo and Bodø (Norway). Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. Teaching takes place usually in form of workshops where the students often are challenged to participate the shaping of human environment on a realistic 1:1 situation. Rintala’s work is striving for a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site.
OASE editors Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels and Maarten Liefooghe wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #111. The theme is: Staging the Museum. Deadline is 10 January 2021, 18:00 CET. More information in the PDF file below.
This issue of OASE traces the role of drawing in landscape design and
urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of the last 50 years, as well as
recent concerns with ecological, metabolic and process-oriented
questions.
> Positioning a new outlook on philosopher Hannah Arendt’s ideas, OASE #106 reveils how her writings very well can help us rethink architecture as a phenomenon and practice
> Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s remarkably spatial view on ‘the world and its inhabitants’
A Project of the Soil
Editors: David Peleman, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni, Elsbeth Ronner
> Insight into the work of both historical and contemporary architects
> With a focus on beautiful architectural drawings over the past five centuries to grasp their role in design practice
> With drawings by George Aitchison, Heinrich Tessenow, El Lissitzky, Lina Bo Bardi and Tony Fretton
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
On 25 November 2019 OASE #104 will be presented at the architecture school La Cambre in Brussel, Belgium.