- 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 understand spatial thinking here as architectural thinking: the ‘world’ for Arendt meant the ways in which we make the globe habitable for people: how we build houses and cities, infrastructures and other networks, and furnish spaces with tables, chairs, paintings and photographs. According to Arendt, this world-of-things was crucial for political life: it is this world that simultaneously connects people and separates them, just like a table organises the people (and the conversation) around it.
This OASE examines architecture - design, building, built environment - from this perspective. The issue opens with an introduction to Arendt’s political thinking, and how it is connected to the (production of) the world. Next, a variety of architects, including George Baird, Patrick Bouchain, Pier Vittorio Aureli, and Mary Duggan, will have the floor to examine their daily practice from Arendt’s perspective.
- Editors of this issue
- Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek
- Authors
- Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma), Geoge Baird, Jeffrey Bolhuis (AP+E Office) & Tara Kennedy, Patrick Bouchain (Construire), Ken De Cooman (BC Architects), Nicola Delon (Encore Heureux), Mary Duggan (Mary Duggan Architects), Pauline Fockeday, Anne Geenen (Site Practice), Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek, Hannah Knoop (Studioeurope), Patchen Markell, Véronique Patteeuw, Cecilia Sjöholm, Hans Teerds, Ard de Vries (Ard de Vries Architecten) & Donna van Milligen Bielke (Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke)
- Design
- Karel Martens, Aagje Martens
- July 2020
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- 23/10/2024Call for Abstracts OASE 122
Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024
- 06/10/2024Call for Submissions
Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
- 21/11/2023call for conversations OASE 118
- Rationalism RevisitedThis Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.
- 11/11/2023call for abstracts OASE 119
Review of Jean-Louis de Cordemoy's Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture in Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences & des beaux-arts, September 1706
Book Reviews
From Words to Buildings
In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.
- 06/03/2023BK 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.
- 31/01/2023Now 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.
- 24/11/2022Call for Abstracts OASE 116
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
- 15/10/2022Now 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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