- OASE 84
- ModelsThe 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 OMA’s models always take on a life of their own, turning into ‘a realisation of what architecture promises, yet can never attain itself’. For example, the two plaster models of the Très Grande Bibliothèque in Paris afforded new insights into a space that can be read both as mass and as counter-mass, while the model of the cruise terminal in Zeebrugge exemplified the power of the iconic form. OASE 84 devotes considerable attention to (architectural) models that play an important part in the work of various artists as well, like in the work of Mike Kelley and Thomas Demand. These models are hardly ever meant to be realised on a different scale elsewhere; they work with the dualistic connotations of the model directly. Although the two disciplines have markedly different motives for using models, we are confident that the cross-pollination brought about here will generate novel insights about the model’s significance and possibilities.
- Editors of this issue
- Anne Holtrop, Hans Teerds, Job Floris
- Authors
- Bas Princen, Krijn de Koning
- 2011
- English/Dutch
- Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
- 170 × 240 mm
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- ISSN0169-6238
- ISBN978-90-5662-807-9
- © NAi Publishers, 2011
- Subsidising institutions
- Netherlands Architecture Fund, Flemisch Community of Belgium
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- 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.
- 23/05/2022Call 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.
- 20/05/2022Now 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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