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OASE 114
Optimism or bust?
2023
Abstract
Despite climate catastrophes, increasing inequality and growing geopolitical instability, architecture remains stubbornly optimistic about the future. More than this: it usually sees itself as …
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 …
OASE 112
Ecology & Aesthetics
2022
Abstract
In recent decades, the field of architecture has witnessed a fundamental shift under the banner of ‘ecology’: from the innovation in energy technologies to the use of circular materials and …
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OASE 111
Staging the Museum
2022
Abstract
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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OASE 110
The Project of the Soil
2022
Abstract
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.For a long time, the theme of …
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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 …
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OASE 108
Ups & Downs
Reception Histories in Architecture
2021
Abstract
The history of architecture can not only be read as an accumulation of buildings and designs, but also as a pendulum movement between the appreciation and the rejection of projects, oeuvres and …
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OASE 107
The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism
2020
Abstract
This issue of OASE traces the role of drawing in landscape design and urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of …
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OASE 106
Table Settings.
Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt
2020
Abstract
The German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once stated that spatial thinking is ‘political’ thinking, as it is concerned about the world and its inhabitants. We certainly can …
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OASE 105
Practices of Drawing
2020
Abstract
It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers …
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OASE 104
The Urban Household of Metabolism
2019
Abstract
Metabolism is the conversion of one form of matter into another. Urban design and architecture are currently paying a great deal of attention to the charting and controlling of material flows …
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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 …
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OASE 102
Schools & Teachers
The Education of an Architect in Europe
2019
Abstract
Architectural training seems to be more difficult to organize than ever before. After May 1968, education was radically democratized, or at least that was the intention. However, the 1999 Bologna …
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OASE 101
Microcosm
Searching for the City in Its Interiors
2018
Abstract
In the modern city, everyday life is increasingly moving towards the inside of buildings. The interiors of department stores, market halls, administration buildings, museums or theatres are part of …
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OASE 100
Karel Martens and The Architecture of the Journal
2018
Abstract
The 100th issue of OASE takes the journal’s long-standing collaboration with its graphic designer Karel Martens as a starting point to explore the relationship between architecture journals and …
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OASE 99
The Architecture Museum Effect
2017
Abstract
Recent developments show a shift in the themes that architecture museums programme: apparently, social and activist subjects are supplanting classical architectural themes. It is a development …
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OASE 98
Narrating Urban Landscapes
2017
Abstract
This issue presents a new angle on the work of (landscape) architects and urban planners of the 1960s and 1970s (Edmund Bacon, Kevin Lynch and Jacques Simon) and of practitioners and academics in …
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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 …
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OASE 96
Social Poetics
The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
2016
Abstract
OASE 96 examines the remarkable revival of architectural practices that focus on reuse and appropriation of buildings, environments and materials. To what extent can and will designers engage in …
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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 …
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OASE 94
OMA. The First Decade
2015
Abstract
This thematic issue of OASE sheds new light on the architectural production of OMA during its first decade (1978-1989) – a mythical but at the same time not very well known period in the history …
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OASE 93
Making landscape public
Making public landscape
2014
Abstract
The 93th issue of OASE magazine examines the recent attention that has been paid to the relationship between landscape and urban planning. This issue explores historical and contemporary attempts at …
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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 …
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OASE 91
Building atmosphere
2013
Abstract
“What do we mean when we speak of architectural quality? It is a question that I have little difficulty in answering. Quality in architecture … is to me when a building …
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OASE 90
What is Good Architecture?
2013
Abstract
Many problems in today’s architecture world would vanish if every once in a while it was clearer what is meant by good architecture. The ‘crisis of criticism’, for instance, is a symptom – seldom …
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OASE 89
Medium
Images of the Mid-Size City
2013
Abstract
OASE 89 is dedicated to the image of the mid-size city. Not just the way this is interpreted, but also how it is produced by urban designers and architects. The urbanism discourse has long focused …
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OASE 88
Exhibitions
Showing and Producing Architecture
2012
Abstract
OASE 88 examines the role of the architecture exhibition as a site of production. Bridging theory and practice, and relating historical examples to contemporary concerns, this issue considers the …
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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 …
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OASE 86
Baroque
2011
Abstract
In OASE 86, the architecture of the baroque is revisited and assessed with specific regards to its relevance for modern and contemporary architecture. On the basis of several historical …
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OASE 85
Productive Uncertainty
Indeterminacy in Spatial Design, Planning and Management
2011
Abstract
The economic crisis of the last few years has had an impact on the domain of spatial planning and architectural practice. This is why OASE finds it imperative to pose the question of how …
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OASE 84
Models
The Idea, the Representation and the Visionary
2011
Abstract
In recent decades models have made a contribution to architectural discourse that should not be underestimated. Christophe Van Gerrewey considers the models in OMA’s oeuvre and ascertains that …
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OASE 83
Commissioning Architecture
2010
Abstract
Architecture is realized by a combination of parties, among which there are architects who react to their clients. Despite the attention paid to well-known examples, such as Truus Schröder, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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OASE 79
The Architecture of James Stirling 1964–1992
A Non-Dogmatic Accumulation of Formal Knowledge
2009
Abstract
OASE 79 is devoted in its entirety to the architecture of the British architect James Stirling (1926–1992), who played a prominent role in the architecture discourse of the 1980s due to his striking …
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OASE 78
Immersed
Sound and Architecture
2009
Abstract
Under the title Immersed, OASE 78 addresses space and sound. This issue presents a reflection on the spatial aspects of sound alongside an examination of the transformative and temporal dimensions …
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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 …
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OASE 76
Specificity
2008
Abstract
What makes a building specific? What is the importance of a clear-cut relationship between architecture and its surroundings? What does the term ‘context’ mean for architecture in this day and age? …
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OASE 75
25 years of Critical Reflection on Architecture
2008
Abstract
OASE, Journal for Architecture is celebrating its 25th anniversary. During this time, OASE has evolved into an international professional journal in which a reflective and critical approach to …
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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 …
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OASE 73
Gentrification
Flows and Counter-Flows
2007
Abstract
The last 15 years have seen radical shifts in the roles of the various players in the Dutch housing sector. In particular, the privatization of Dutch housing corporations in 1994 has translated into …
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OASE 72
Back to School
2007
Abstract
The schools programme has been poorly served by architectural circles in both the Netherlands and Flanders for many years, but the topic of school architecture’s importance is back on the agenda. …
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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 …
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OASE 70
Architecture & Literature
Reflections/Imaginations
2006
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, literary reflection as a component of the architectural discourse has disappeared into the background. In a favourable economic and political climate, those working within the …
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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 …
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OASE 68
Home-land
2005
Abstract
Migration is a phenomenon known throughout history. The diversification of Europe’s population as a result of migration has increased massively over recent decades. Furthermore, immigration is a …
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OASE 67
After the Party
Dutch Architecture 2005
2005
Abstract
Dutch architecture of the 1990s is regarded worldwide as a success. The favourable economic and political conditions from the start of the 1990s (the ‘boom’ years) created an advantageous climate …
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OASE 66
Virtually Here
Space in Cyberfiction
2005
Abstract
OASE 66 investigates the expression and use of architecture in science fiction and specifically in cyberpunk (cyberfiction). Science fiction, originally a literary and later a film genre, explores …
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OASE 65
Ornament
Decorative Traditions in Architecture
2004
Abstract
Set against the background of artistic production in a highly eclectic age, the limited range of references explored by many architects and their focus on the forms and models of modernism produced …
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OASE 64
Landscape and Mass Tourism
2004
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OASE 63
Countryside
2004
Abstract
OASE 63 is devoted to the development of the countryside. So far this theme has been conceived from an urban perspective. Everything, even the development and the protection of nature in the …
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OASE 62
Autonomous Architecture and the Project of the City
2003
Abstract
OASE 62 is devoted to ‘Autonomous Architecture and the Project of the City’. In the late 1960s, the Italian design collective Tendenza brought the autonomous development of architecture into the …
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OASE 61
Suburbia and Social Democracy
2003
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OASE 60
Urbanism Out of Town
2002
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OASE 59
Scratching the Surface
2002
Abstract
This issue of OASE takes for its title Scratching the Surface. Its intent, in the broadest sense, is to address the relationship (in architecture) between surface and visuality, surface and image, …
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OASE 58
The Visible and the Invisible
2001
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OASE 57
1970s Revisited
2001
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OASE 56
Domestic Nature
2001
Abstract
This issue of OASE, number 56, is the second of two on gardens. In the first one we examined the role the garden can play in relation to architecture and described both the garden as an inhabited …
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OASE 55
Home and Garden
2001
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OASE 54
Re: Generic City
2001
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OASE 53
Network Urbanism
2000
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OASE 52
Consumption and Territory
1999
Abstract
In the past few decades, there has been a process of de-institutionalization of the housing production in European countries with a strong social-democratic tradition. In such instances, the …
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OASE 51
Rearrangements, A Smithson's Celebration
1999
Abstract
OASE 51 is dedicated to Alison and Peter Smithson. The issue does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey of their work. It rather displays the state of the art in the research and reception of their …
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OASE 49–50
Convention
1998
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OASE 48
Diagrams
1998
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OASE 47
Dressing
1997
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OASE 45–46
Essential Architecture
1997
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OASE 44
Venetiaanse Perspectieven
1996
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OASE 43
Zwischenraumgespenster
1995
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OASE 42
Over stijl
1995
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OASE 41
Het Wereldontwerp
1994
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OASE 40
Poiésis en architectuur
1994
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OASE 39
De huivering en de stenen
Materialiteit en fysieke ervaring
1994
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OASE 37–38
1994
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OASE 36
Over de architectuurtekening
1993
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OASE 35
Over havenfronten
1993
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OASE 34
Over het interieur
1992
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OASE 33
Over de transformatie van de metropool
1992
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OASE 32
Over architectuur en stedebouw in de jaren zestig
1992
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OASE 31
Over de tektoniek van de opstand & Aldo Rossi's plan voor het Bonnefantenmuseum
1991
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OASE 30
Sprekende architectuur
deel II
1991
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OASE 29
Sprekende architectuur
deel I
1991
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OASE 28
Snelheid en zwaarte
1990
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OASE 26–27
1989
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OASE 25
1989
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OASE 24
Stedelijke identiteit en collectief geheugen
1989
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OASE 23
1989
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OASE 22
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OASE 21
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OASE 20
Bloemen van het kwaad
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OASE 19
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OASE 18
Film en architectuur
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OASE 17
1987
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OASE 16
1987
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OASE 15
De Hollandse manege
1986
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OASE 14
Het Witte Dorp
1986
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OASE 13
1986
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OASE 12
1986
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OASE 11
1985
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O 9–10
1985
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O 8
1984
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O 7
1984
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O 6
1984
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O 5
1983
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O 4
Jongerenhuisvesting
1982
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O 3
1982
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O 2
1981
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O 1
1981

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