1. Wim Nijenhuis

        Bio
        Wim Nijenhuis is a theorist and historian of urban design. In 2003 he earned his doctorate from the Chair of Architecture History and Theory programme at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has produced radio programmes on Paul Virilio and taught at universities and academies in the Netherlands and abroad. Alone and with others he has published various works on architecture, including Eating Brazil (1999) and De diabolische snelweg (The Diabolical Highway, 2008). In 2009 the English-language commercial edition of his thesis, The Integral City, will be published. Nijenhuis teaches at Ghent University, de Fontys Academy for Architecture and Urban Design in Tilburg and the Artez Academy for Architecture in Arnhem.
        [last updated in 2008]

      2. issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


          issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

             

            issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


            issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

               

              issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


              issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

                 
            1. 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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            2. 21/02/2023
              Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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            3. 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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            4. 02/12/2022
              Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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            5. 24/11/2022
              Call for Abstracts OASE 116
              1. 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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            6. 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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            7. 23/05/2022
              Call 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.

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            8. 20/05/2022
              Now 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.

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            9. 01/04/2022
              Now 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!

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            10. 23/01/2022
              Now 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.

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