Sonja Spruit
- Bio
Sonja Spruit is a practicing architect and urban planner, based in Cairo. Since 2001, after being a project architect at designstudio Herman Hertzberger, she has been focusing on international development projects. She has worked in in many places, including the Philippines, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Ethiopia, China and Vietnam. Since 2013 she is co-owner of the collective MAATworks, office for sustainable and socially committed architecture. Maatworks is currently producing a number of projects in the built environment, both in the Netherlands and abroad, with an emphasis on building for and with people.
[last updated in 2015]
- 16/07/2020Now available: OASE #106 Table Settings. Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt
> 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’
- 22/06/2020Call for Abstracts OASE #110
A Project of the Soil
Editors: David Peleman, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni, Elsbeth Ronner
- 28/04/2020Now available: OASE #105 Practices of Drawing
> 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
- 17/12/2019Call for Papers OASE #108
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
Editors: David Peleman, Jantje Engels, Christophe Van Gerrewey
“It is brilliant people say brilliant
while it’s mere dilettantism
What they touch becomes tasteless
always the most obvious
superficialities
even the most exalted starts to stink”
— Thomas Bernhard, Der Schein trügt, 1984
- 21/11/2019Call for Abstracts OASE #107
- OASE #107 The drawing in landscape architecture and urbanism
Editors: Bruno Notteboom, Frits Palmboom, Bart DecroosOASE invites everyone to read the Call for Abstracts for OASE #107.
We are interested in two kinds of contributions that each start from the drawing:1. Textual contributions: historical or theoretical papers about a (series of) drawing(s).Proposals contain one image and an abstract of 300 words.
2. Visual contributions: a specific (series of) drawing(s) from personal/actual practice.These proposals contain the drawing(s) themselves and a caption of a maximum of 300 words through which the proposal is situated within the theme of the issue.
Proposals must be submitted via info@oasejournal.nl by 20 December 2019 and contain a title and CV (name, email address, affiliation and a bio of maximum 150 words). Proposals must be submitted in Dutch or English.
Read the Call for detailed information.
- 29/10/2019Presentation OASE #104
On 25 November 2019 OASE #104 will be presented at the architecture school La Cambre in Brussel, Belgium.
- 29/10/2019Now available: OASE #104 The Urban Household of Metabolism
> Unique OASE issue on locations of metabolism that kept communities urban households in order.
> With contributions by: Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk; Ben Vandenput; Koenraad Danneels; Julia von Mende; Dagmar Pelger & Emily Kelling; Ludo Groen; Nitin Bathla; Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone & Marco Ranzato; Diana Soeiro; Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen & Maximiliaan Royakkers; Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo; Riccardo M. Villa en Hans Vandermaelen.
- 12/06/2019Presentation OASE #103
On 17 June 2019 OASE #103 will be presented at the University of Manchester. Starting at 12.30. Everyone is welcome and a lunch is provided. More information in the pdf.
- 23/05/2019Now available: OASE #103 Critical Regionalism Revisited
> Internationally renowned architectural historian Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2018. Critical Regionalism is his most known theory
> Today, architects are searching for new ways to design and conceive built space. Critical Regionalism might just be the concept that we need to revisit.
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