Tom Avermaete

1. Tom Avermaete
  Bio
  Tom Avermaete is professor in the History and Theory of Urban Design at the ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the architecture of the city and the changing roles, approaches and tools of architects and urban designers from a cross-cultural perspective. Recent book publications include Architecture of the Welfare State (with Mark Swenarton and Dirk van den Heuvel, 2014), The Balcony (with Rem Koolhaas, 2014), Casablanca – Chandigarh (with Maristella Casciato, 2015), Shopping Towns Europe (with Janina Gosseye, 2017) and Acculturating the Shopping Centre (with Janina Gosseye, 2018). Avermaete curated the exhibitions ‘In the Desert of Modernity’ (Berlin, Casablanca, 2008, 2009), ‘Casablanca – Chandigarh’ (Montreal, 2015) and ‘Lived-In: The Modern City as Performative Infrastructure’ (Antwerp, 2017). He is an editor of OASE.
  [last updated in 2019]
2. OASE 116
  The Architect as Public Intellectual
  2023
  Abstract
  The role of the architect is about more than designing buildings. Architecture and space are always related to social issues and challenges. This means that architects may be well placed to …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Elsbeth Ronner en Hans Teerds
  
  Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Elsbeth Ronner and Hans Teerds
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  The Architect as a Public Intellectual
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  OASE 113
  Authorship
  2023
  Abstract
  What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Irina Davidovici, Véronique Patteeuw
  
  Tom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw
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  Authorship as a Construct
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  OASE 109
  Modernities
  2021
  Abstract
  The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds
  Editors
  Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
  Authors
  Tom Avermaete, BeL Sozietät für Architektur, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Bruther, Caruso St John Architects, Christophe Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Francesca Torzo
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw & Hans Teerds
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  Modernities
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  Tom Avermaete & Christoph Grafe
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  A History of Multiple Modernities:
  Architecture Culture and Its Conceptions of ‘the Modern’
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  Avermaete and Grafe examine the historical trajectory of concepts of modernity and the rhetorical figure of a ‘rupture’ that these tended to share, at least in European history of culture and …
  
  Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw
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  Bruther
  A Conversation with Stéphanie Bru & Alexandre Theriot
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  In their dialogue with Tom Avermaete and Véronique Patteeuw,Parisian practice Bruther explored the value of technology and the office’s appetite for innovation, beyond the positivist value system …
  
  Tom Avermaete, Hans Teerds
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  Caruso St John Architects
  A Conversation with Adam Caruso
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  In his exchange with Tom Avermaete and Hans Teerds, Adam Caruso, partner in the London practice of Caruso St John, offers an examination of questions of resistance in or through architecture. He …
  
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  OASE 103
  Critical Regionalism
  Revisited
  2019
  Abstract
  The English architect, historian, critic and educator Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the latest Venice Biennale 2018. There is no architecture student …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Lea-Catherine Szacka
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Asli Cicek, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
  
  Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka & Hans Teerds
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  Revisiting Critical Regionalism
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  For more than five decades, Anglo-American architecture critic and historian Kenneth Frampton has played a prominent role in architecture culture. During this entire period, he has taken a rather …
  
  Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Hans Teerds
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  A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton
  New York, 6 April 2018
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  This conversation with Kenneth Frampton probes into the intellectual context in which the concept of Critical Regionalism came into being. It situates the text from 1983 in a series of events such …
  
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  OASE 97
  Action and Reaction in Architecture
  2016
  Abstract
  OASE 97. Action and Reaction presents a collection of confrontations between architects themselves, and between architects and architecture critics.Creating and thinking about architecture has …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Veronique Patteeuw
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
  Christophe Van Gerrewey, Véronique Patteeuw, Tom Avermaete
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  Action and Reaction in Architecture
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  OASE 95
  Crossing Boundaries
  Transcultural Practices in Architecture and Urbanism
  2015
  Abstract
  This issue of OASE takes as its point of departure the cross-cultural conditions in which architects, urban designers and landscape architects work. It focuses in particular on architects working in …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Viviana d’Auria, Klaske Havik, Lidewij Lenders
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik Lidewij Lenders Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
  Tom Avermaete, Viviana d’Auria, Klaske Havik, Lidewij Lenders
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  Editorial: Crossing Boundaries
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  Crossing Cultures of Urbanism: The Transnational Planning Ventures of Michel Écochard
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  This article considers the way French urban planner Écochard combined the methods and approaches of a variety of disciplines in his practice. For instance, it discusses how he introduced the …
  
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  OASE 92
  Codes and Continuities
  2014
  Abstract
  This issue of OASE magazine sheds light on a set of modernist architectural approaches that have languished in the shadow of their canonical counterparts. In this way, OASE offers points of …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Job Floris
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn en Job Floris
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  Editorial
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  This issue of OASE starts from the observation that our knowledge of modern architectural approaches remains, to this very day, largely limited to the avant-garde …
  
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  Reconstructing Convention
  Fernand Pouillon’s La Tourette Housing in Marseilles, 1946–1953
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  The project for the La Tourette Housing in Marseilles illustrates French architect Fernand Pouillon’s complex attitudes towards conventions. Tom Avermaete illustrates how …
  
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  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 …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
  Editors
  Anne Holtrop, Bruno Notteboom, Christoph Grafe, Christophe Van Gerrewey, David de Bruijn, Gus Tielens, Hans Teerds, Job Floris, Klaske Havik, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Avermaete, Tom Vandeputte, Véronique Patteeuw
  
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
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  Composition and Typology
  Alan Colquhoun's building projects
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  This contribution discusses seven of Colquhoun’s architectural projects, which he produced, successively, at the London County Council (LCC), at the practice of Lyons Israel Ellis, and at the firm …
  
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
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  Editorial
  Alan Colquhoun. Architect, Historian, Critic
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  Christoph Grafe, Tom Avermaete
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  A Conversation with Alan Colquhoun
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  In this interview Colquhoun addresses the present-day (im-)possibility of a metaphysical framework for judging architecture, alluding to the theories of Niklas Luhmann and Jacques Derrida. Both …
  
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  OASE 82
  L'Afrique, c'est chic
  Architecture and Planning in Africa 1950–1970
  2010
  Abstract
  For the last few years there has been a strong revival of interest in the African city across numerous disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and urban history. Since the mid-1990s, when Rem …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Johan Lagae
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte
  
  Johan Lagae, Tom Avermaete
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  L'Afrique, c'est chic
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  This issue devoted to Africa is a response to the current fascination with the African city among architects and planners, stimulated among other things by Rem Koolhaas’s research on Lagos. By …
  
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  Framing the Afropolis
  Michel Ecochard and the African City for the Greatest Number
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  In his article Tom Avermaete discusses the course followed by French architect and urban designer Michel Ecochard as an example of a new kind of design practice that took off in Africa between 1950 …
  
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  OASE 81
  Constructing Criticism
  2010
  Abstract
  The apparent increase in popular demand for volumes presenting works of architecture as novelties has been curiously matched by the marked absence of a critical discussion of the objects that would …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte
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  Editorial
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  The editorial of this issue of OASE opens up a reflection on architecture criticism, following the critical encounters (seminars, debates, lectures, round table discussions), the journal organised …
  
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  OASE 80
  On Territories
  2009
  Abstract
  There has probably never been such an intense debate about the layout of the countryside as the one that is currently raging. There are serious concerns about the landscape, which is being rapidly …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte, Jeroen Visschers
  
  Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Nancy Meijsmans, Hans Teerds
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  OASE 77
  Into the open
  2008
  Abstract
  In the modern world, urban public space is used more intensively than ever, and is often organized specifically for consumption. For decades, this was seen as a negative development; it was said …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds
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  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Jeroen Visschers, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds
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  Editorial
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  Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik
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  Accommodating the Public Sphere
  Bernard Tschumi's Dynamic Definition of Architecture
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  OASE 74
  Invention
  2007
  Abstract
  Invention operates at the centre of artistic identity. As an important and almost intangible element of the architects capacities, it often remains unsaid or unspoken. Invention denotes the moment …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Anne Holtrop
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  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Joachim Declerck, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Anne Holtrop
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  Climat de France
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  OASE 71
  Urban Formation and Collective Spaces
  2006
  Abstract
  In 1992 the Spanish architect Manuel de Solà-Morales already suggested in OASE that the civic, architectural, urban and morphological richness of a contemporary city resides in the collective spaces …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Fransje Hooimeijer, Lara Schrijver
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  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, David Mulder, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Tom Avermaete, Fransje Hooimeijer, Lara Schrijver
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  OASE 69
  Positions
  Shared Territories in Historiography & Practice
  2006
  Abstract
  In recent years, both architectural historiography and architectural design practice have been characterized by significant shifts. These new perspectives and methodologies did not merely bring …
  Editors of this issue
  Johan Lagae, Marc Schoonderbeek, Tom Avermaete
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  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Madeleine Maaskant, David Mulder, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Johan Lagae, Marc Schoonderbeek, Tom Avermaete, Andrew Leach
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  The Spaces of the Everyday
  A Dialogue Between Monique Eleb and Jean-Philippe Vassal
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  OASE 64
  Landscape and Mass Tourism
  2004
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Johan Lagae, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
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  Travelling Notions of Public and Private
  The French Mass Tourism Projects of Candilis-Josic-Woods
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  OASE 60
  Urbanism Out of Town
  2002
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
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  Rus in Urbe
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  OASE 54
  Re: Generic City
  2001
  
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  Capsulair Places
  Analysis and Therapy of the Public Space
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