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]
- 23/05/2022Call 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.
- 20/05/2022Now 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.
- 01/04/2022Now 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!
- 23/01/2022Now 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.
- 18/01/2022Call for Abstracts OASE 114. Optimism or Bust?
- Call for Abstracts OASE #114 about “Optimism or Bust?”, written by editors Stefan Devoldere, David Peleman and Jantje Engels.The deadline is 27 February 2022.Read the full text of the Call in the PDF file.
- 11/01/2022Online presentation OASE 108 & 109 on 14 January 2022 at 15:00
Read all about the presentation in the pdf file.
- 19/10/2021Call for Abstracts OASE 113. Authorships
George Nelson Installation. © Vitra Design Museum Archive
- 07/10/2021Now available: OASE 109. Modernities
A different understanding of Modernity
> From a linear to a cyclical model for architectural history
- 01/06/2021NEW DEADLINE Call for Abstracts OASE #112
- THE NEW DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN YOUR ABSTRACT FOR OASE #112 IS: 15 JUNE 2021OASE editors Bart Decroos, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner and Kornelia Dimitrova wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #112 with the theme “Ecological Aesthetics”. This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that investigate the role of aesthetics in contemporary ecological practices and discourses in architecture. Deadline is 15 June 2021. Read the full text of the OASE #112 Call for Abstracts in the pdf-files below.
- 28/03/2021Now available: OASE 108. Ups & Downs
> What is good, not so good or bad architecture?
> Analysis of the force field of architectural appreciation and depreciation
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