- 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 explain and examine their role as cultural statements or as exponents of particular urban, social and political visions. The dearth of architecture criticism, not only in general newspapers or magazines, on television and radio, is a perennial phenomenon. There are many reasons for the disappearance of the culture of architecture criticism. The progressive acceptance of architecture as image production rather than as an agent of a larger social or political project and the demise of platforms for critical thought, however, are among the most alarming. If architecture is a rich and complex field of cultural production and know ledge that continuously redefines itself vis-à-vis spatial, societal and cultural challenges, then critically thinking and writing on this role of architecture both as a force of change and as a mode of reflection are most essential. This issue of OASE is aimed at examining the role of the architecture magazine within the current debate on architecture criticism. Resulting from the numerous talks, seminars and symposia organized in the framework of the 25th anniversary of OASE, this issue brings together important critical voices around one central question: ‘What critical role should the architecture journal play in an ever more a-critical landscape?’
- Editors of this issue
- Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte
- June 2010
- Dutch/English
- Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
- 170 × 240 mm
- Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
- ISSN0169-6238
- ISBN90-5662-752-2
- © NAi Publishers, 2010
- Subsidising institutions
- Netherlands Architecture Fund
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- 06/10/2024Call for Submissions
Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
- 21/11/2023call for conversations OASE 118
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- 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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