1. 2023

        1. Date string
          21/11/2023
          Title
          call for conversations OASE 118
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          Rationalism Revisited

          OASE has always been committed to the exchange of ideas between theory and practice, between academics or writers and practising architects. Therefore, for this issue we are now looking for texts based on conversations with contemporary design practices. In this ‘Call for Conversations’, we especially invite young writers and researchers to submit a proposal for an in-depth dialogue between themselves and a contemporary design practice that fits within the theme of the issue. The work of the designer in question gives rise to a reinterpretation of rationalist building.

          This Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.

          Read the full text in the PDF’s below.






          1. OASE 118_CfC_Nederlandse tekst.pdf383 KB
          2. OASE 118 CfC_English text.pdf608 KB
      • 2023

          1. 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
        • Date string
          11/11/2023
          Title
          call for abstracts OASE 119
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          Book Reviews
          From Words to Buildings

          The history of the architecture book has never been told from the perspective of the review. However, the book review is crucial because the social conversation about architectural assumptions contained in each publication is tested, synthesised and evaluated. A book exists to be read, but the review is the most succinct and visible record of that reading, and of its influence. The review helps transform words into buildings, projects and spatial decisions – the review is one of the bridges between a publication (with theory, criticism and history), practice and the built environment.

          In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. The properties are studied of a genre that is more or less generally available, intended for a shifting audience of architects, interested readers and historians. A history of the book review is an analysis of a medium: the book did not kill the building, as Victor Hugo put it in 1831, but always instigated and encouraged it. The main aim is to reveal how the book relates to practice, and how this relationship has evolved. The book review is a trenchant opportunity to look back on production in the distant or recent past, and to speculate about the future.

          Authors are invited to submit a 200-word abstract as a proposal for a 1,000-word article. The abstract should identify one existing book review, published from the inception of the architecture book to the present day. It should indicate how this review has guided or initiated architectural practice and thinking about environment and space. Abstracts must be submitted by 20 December 2023 at info@oasejournal.nl. Authors will be notified on 15 January 2024 and will be asked to submit their article by 1 April 2024.

          Editors of this issue: Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds.

          Image: 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

          1. OASE 119 Call for Abstracts.pdf65.6 KB
      • 2023

        • Date string
          06/03/2023
          Title
          BK Talks on 16 March 2023 about 'Design with Soil: Urbanizing the living surface'
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          Inspired by OASE 110 the TU Delft will organise a talk about ‘Design with soil’ on 16 March 2023, starting at 18:00. 

          Unsustainable growth (urbanization) and shifting temporal horizons in spatial planning increase the urgency of the environmental crisis, especially in deltas like the Netherlands. Securing quality sources and managing quantities of water – sometimes too much and sometimes too little – compelled the Dutch government to put soil and water systems at the fore of the nation’s spatial order. The resultant merger of the water and the soil crisis, however, has been due to the separate treatment of these interdependent systems for decades. The water crisis has been presenting itself in floodings and droughts. However, the soil crisis is more hidden; soil can no longer be conceptualised as a neutral surface. It demands to be understood as living, dynamic and processual, with thickness, a volume in four dimensions. Soils, although degraded and fragmented, call to be looked upon with a new gaze, to be rearticulated in a new project of space aimed towards the construction of a shared, productive, and inhabited nature. All forms of urbanity contain strong ecological potential and are all, today, the testbed to reconceive new relations between soil, city and society.

          This BK Talks places on center stage the recognition of soil as a fundamental resource and as a powerful tool to reframe the urban project in design discourse. Moderated by Professor Fransje Hooimeijer, the panel will present different views on how to operationalize soil into design on different levels.

          Date: 16 March 2023
          Time: 18:00 - 20:00
          Location: Oostserre, TU Delft, faculty of Architecture and the Built Environmen, Julianalaan 134, Delft, the Netherlands

          This event can be attended both live and online. Everyone is welcome!
          Live stream via this link: https://www.youtube.com/user/BouwkundeDelft

          More information about the participants via this link.



      • 2023

        • Date string
          21/02/2023
          Title
          Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations
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          In the historiography of architecture and urban design, the village has been surprisingly underdiscussed. The same thing is happening in the contemporary architectural debate. Of late, ‘the village’ has been tentatively recapturing the attention of policymakers, residents and designers. Moreover, specifically in the Netherlands and Belgium, there are growing concerns for the ‘village identity’.

          What are we talking about when we sing the praises of the village, want to ‘save it’ or emulate it? Does the village still have meaning as a model in times of general urbanization, and in exactly what way?

          We are interested in essays that, rather than oppose the village to modernity examine the villages as complex products of modernity and urbanization, or as the cultivated (counter)ideals of modern urbanism and architecture since the late nineteenth century.


          The call is written by Stefan Devoldere, Maarten Liefooghe and Sereh Mandias. Deadline is 21 March 2023.

          Read the full text of the OASE 117 Call for Abstracts in Dutch or in English in the PDF’s.

          1. OASE#117_Call for abstracts_NED.pdf170 KB
          2. OASE#117_Call for abstracts_ENG.pdf395 KB
      • 2023

        • Date string
          31/01/2023
          Title
          Now available: OASE 113. Authorship
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          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.

          What, then, might be the essential argument for retaining the concept of authorship in architecture today? Perhaps the most resounding argument is this: authorship is not only an act that implies originality, it is also a deeply felt commitment to a work that until its realisation belonged only to the author, but to which he or she is also completely devoted. Wouldn’t it be more interesting to imagine the concept of the author in architecture as a space of possibility, as a field in which the responsibility, the commitment, even being completely absorbed by the work of invention, is distributed among several heads and hands?

          OASE 113 wants to take a position in relation to the ways in which authorship in architectural practice is both claimed and addressed. It wants to argue for the importance of authorship and explore a wider variety of its conceptions in architectural practice. 

          Editors of this issue:

          For sale for € 22,95 (print) or € 14,95 (ebook) at among others nai010 via this link.

          An impression of OASE 113 can be found in the PDF below.
          1. oase 113 10 pages.pdf660 KB
      • 2022

      • 2022

          1. Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)
        • Date string
          24/11/2022
          Title
          Call for Abstracts OASE 116
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          Call for Abstracts OASE 116 about ‘The Architect as Public Instellectual’. Through their work, architects gain expertise not only of ways to design and construct buildings, but also  on the spatial dimension of social issues and societal challenges, such as mobility, the housing crisis, healthcare and migration. With this knowledge, architects are well positioned to make, participate and contribute to public debates about such challenges. In this issue of OASE we aim to explore how architects have participated in such debates, and how they have been able to connect architectural design and expertise to social issues.

          The call is written by Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Elsbeth Ronner and Hans Teerds. Deadline is 23 December 2022. Read the full text of the OASE 116 Call for Abstracts in Dutch or in English in the PDF’s.


          1. OASE 116_Call for Abstracts_EN.pdf156 KB
          2. OASE 116_Call for Abstracts_NL.pdf141 KB
      • 2022

        • Date string
          15/10/2022
          Title
          Now available: OASE 112. Ecology & Aesthetics
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          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 climate-neutral building solutions – today, more than ever, the construction of a building seems to be dominated by an ecological awareness. At the same time, such sustainable thinking often places ecological questions outside of the design itself, in the hands of experts and within the logic of quantitative calculation, while the building disappears into the ephemerality of life cycles and network models.

          By focusing on the intersection between ecology and aesthetics in architecture, however, this issue of OASE situates the thinking about such issues at the heart of the discipline. It asks: how do ecological questions materialise in architecture? And what aesthetic practices are able to shape the perception of these ecological questions? 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.

          Editors of this issue: Bart Decroos, Kornelia Dimitrova, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner

          An impression of OASE112 can be found in the PDF below.
          1. OASE 112_10 pages.pdf12.6 MB
      • 2022

        • Date string
          23/05/2022
          Title
          Call for Abstracts OASE #115. Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe
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          This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that examine the poetics of design and how they are brought about by the cultural exchanges that have characterised Europe for centuries and that have intensified over the past decades. We are searching for contributions that are reflective and illustrate the effect of interferences between differences in architecture culture and educational background and how this unfolds in design processes at the level of making design decisions, the use and development of design methods and methodologies, the visual representation of designs and the language and terminologies employed in design thinking.

          Deadline is June 19, 2022. Read the full text of the OASE #115 Call for Abstracts in the PDF below.
          1. Call for Abstracts OASE 115.pdf1.38 MB
      • 2022

        • Date string
          20/05/2022
          Title
          Now available: OASE 111. Staging the Museum
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          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.

          OASE 111 highlights historical and contemporary mechanisms and motifs of such staging. This shifts the focus in the discussion about museum architecture, long centered around (iconic) exteriors and (good) exhibition spaces. Current museological developments concern the whole configuration between city – or landscape – and gallery. Storage depots become visible or open to visitors, revising the boundaries between front and backstage. Streamed events find a stage in a fixed auditorium, a forgotten corner, or on a temporary platform.

          The essays in this issue of OASE speculate on the importance of the architectonic staging of museum visits and activities, as institutions rethink their roles within an accelerating event culture. The scenes of the museum are not examined on the typological level of the museum building, but in a walk along meaningful places.

          Editors of this issue: Aslı Çiçek, Jantje Engels, Maarten Liefooghe

          Authors: Maria Alvarez Garcia, Camille Bladt, Aslı Çiçek, Adria Daraban, Georgios Eftaxiopoulos, Tony Fretton, Matteo Ghidoni, Aurélie Hachez, Sandra Kisters, Maarten Liefooghe, Elena Montanari, Mark Pimlott, Michele Porcelluzzi, Gennaro Postiglione, Elsbeth Ronner, Chiara Velicogna, Paul Vermeulen, Stefaan Vervoort

          An impression of OASE 111 can be found in the pdf below.


          1. oase 111 lowres single 10 omslag.pdf866 KB
      • 2022

        • Date string
          01/04/2022
          Title
          Now available: sold-out OASE issues as e-book!
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          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 the links below 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!

          OASE 45 Essential Architecture

          The search for an essential architecture has been a strong impulse in the various strands of twentieth-century architecture. The search is for a language of silence, an architectural language that may seem mute but carries the viewer along with it without wasting words, and without ambiguity. A serious idiom that relies on the power of the architectural material and has no room for playful, multi-layered meaning or rhetorical redundancies in its aspiration to authenticity. Where is this urge for simplicity coming from? How can it be explained against the prevalent background of popular imagery? Why this harking back the essential, material quality of architecture?

          OASE 54 Generic City
          Does the generic city exists? Is the contemporary city, as Rem Koolhaas argues in his essay The Generic City, ‘all the same’? Does it have identity, is it undifferentiated, un-centred, unbounded? Is it already generic or will it become generic in the near future? In The Generic City, both matter of fact and prophetic, Koolhaas describes the future of what used to be the city in sixteen extended aphorisms.

          OASE 63 Countryside
          OASE is an independent, international, bilingual (Dutch/English) journal on architecture, urban planning and landscape design. In more than 20 years, Oase has developed into the professional journal in which a reflective and critical attitude toward architecture, urban planning and landscape design occupies centre stage. Oase is published three times a year.
          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 countryside serve the city. OASE 63 reverses this perspective. City nor urbanisation but the countryside and the agrarian industry constitute the starting point. The divide between city and countryside is looked at from different points of view: the reinterpretation of history, contemporary designs, analysis, considerations and the development of theories.

          OASE 65 Ornament
          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 after the 1920s, are remarkable. While re-inventions of modernist formal exercises dominate architectural publications, interior design magazines display a shameless interest for traditional design approaches that allow modern sophisticated Europeans to relate to a past beyond the 20th century. This issue of OASE examines how figurative architectural traditions can contribute to understanding historic dimensions that affect the everyday lives of contemporary Europeans. The question is whether or not the reference to tradition reworked into architecture can be more than a spicy ingredient in the rich pudding of lifestyles and fashions by which we give shape to our environment now. This is a question of particular relevance in the Netherlands, which has contributed beyond proportion to all forms of modernisms and which is at present involved in an uneasy and moralistic debate on its own traditions.

          OASE 78 Sound and Architecture
          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 of space.
          Immersed concentrates on one specific side of the spatial experience, namely sound, presenting new theoretical insights as well as relevant case studies. Sound is a spatial event, a material phenomenon and an auditive experience rolled into one. It can be described using the vectors of distance, direction and location. Within architecture, every built space can modify, position, reflect or reverberate the sounds that occur there. Sound embraces and transcends the spaces in which it occurs, opening up a consummate context for the listener: the acoustic source and its surroundings unite into a unique auditory experience.


      • 2022

        • Date string
          23/01/2022
          Title
          Now available: OASE 110. The Project of the Soil
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          For a long time, the theme of soil – as matter, not as territory – has been the quasi exclusive subject of agriculture, geography and soil science. Only in the last few decades, due to a rapidly growing awareness of climate change, has soil increasingly come into focus in urban design, in particular as a matter that can also provide ecosystem services in urban environments.

          The editors of OASE 110 believe that soils, although degraded and fragmented, call to be looked upon with a new gaze. They should be rearticulated in a new project aimed at the construction of a shared, productive and inhabited nature, containing different elements of urbanity and offering – at the same time – a more resilient and sustainable environment for all.

          Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text ‘Progetto di Suolo’, this issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil – as an intermediary package that connects surface and subsurface – can further connect to the practices of urbanism and urban design, and how it can guide those practices in exploring new agendas.

          Editors of this issue: David Peleman, Paola Vigan, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Elsbeth Ronner

          Authors: Eduardo Abrantes, Alexandra Arenes, Tulay Atak, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Isabella Baranyk, Michele Bee, Cristina Bianchetti, Pascal Boivin, Livia Cahn, Pu Hsien Chan, Gilles Clement, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Michiel Dehaene, Romeo Dipura, Rosetta Elkin, Teresa Gali-Izar, Urtzi Grau, Claire Guenat, Atabile Gwagwa, Luke Harris, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Thierry Kandjee, Louisa King, Paul Landauer, Linda Lapiņa, Joanna Lombard, JulianMeier, Germain Meulemans, Stefano Munarin, Ruth Oldham, David Peleman, Chiara Pradel, Sara Protasoni, Elsbeth Ronner, Kristine Samson, Isabel Recubenis Sanchis, Michael Stas, Anais Tondeur, Maria Chiara Tosi, Susanne Trumpf, Cara Turett, Ivan Valin, Hans Vandermaelen, Carmen Van Maercke, Antoine Vialle, Paola Vigano, Paola Vigano, Bonnie-Kate Walker, Kevin Westerveld

          An impression of OASE 110 in the document below.
          1. OASE 110_impression.pdf410 KB
      • 2022

      • 2022

        • Date string
          11/01/2022
          Title
          Online presentation OASE 108 & 109 on 14 January 2022 at 15:00
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          Read all about the presentation in the pdf file.
          1. oase presentation 108-109.pdf1.36 MB
      • 2021

      • 2021

        • Date string
          07/10/2021
          Title
          Now available: OASE 109. Modernities
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          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 this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead? In the 1970s and 1980s, this question was usually considered from the seemingly mutually exclusive points of view of the modern, the anti-modern and the postmodern positions. The lines dividing these positions were also directly linked to certain formal-aesthetic choices, even in terms of the care of existing buildings and the preservation of monuments, in which the boundary between new and old is arbitrary by definition.

          Over the past two decades, contemporary European architecture developed a different frame of reference, one in which the horizon is no longer provided by the architecture of the modern movement. Historical typological principles, compositional approaches and material logic are also experienced as modern and they provide the starting point for the design.

          OASE 109 traces how, against the background of this broadening frame of reference, a different understanding of modernity emerged.

          Editors of this issue: Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds

          Authors: Tom Avermaete, BeL Sozietät für Architektur, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Bruther, Caruso St John Architects, Christophe Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Francesca Torzo

      • 2021

        • Date string
          01/06/2021
          Title
          NEW DEADLINE Call for Abstracts OASE #112
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          THE NEW DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN YOUR ABSTRACT FOR OASE #112 IS: 15 JUNE 2021
          OASE editors Bart Decroos, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner and Kornelia Dimitrova wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #112 with the theme “Ecological Aesthetics”. This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that investigate the role of aesthetics in contemporary ecological practices and discourses in architecture. Deadline is 15 June 2021. Read the full text of the OASE #112 Call for Abstracts in the pdf-files below.


          1. OASE 112 Ecological Aesthetics_EN(1).pdf94.8 KB
          2. OASE 112 Ecologische esthetiek_NL(1).pdf97.5 KB
      • 2021

        • Date string
          28/03/2021
          Title
          Now available: OASE 108. Ups & Downs
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          Reception Histories in Architecture
          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 positions, driven by varying arguments. In addition to conventional general publications, reviews in professional journals and criticism in magazines, other media increasingly play a part, such as weekend supplements of newspapers, social media, newsletters, political arenas and forums that cultivate architecture.

          Oeuvres and projects are subject to trends, to waves of appreciation by audiences and critics. As a result, it is sometimes unclear what it is that makes architecture good, less good or bad.

          This issue of OASE investigates how changing appreciations, for a wide variety of reasons, can act as productive misunderstandings and as levers that can take architecture criticism a step forward and help architecture reflection to break free from any given canon or from its straitjacket of assumed certainties.

          OASE #108
          Ups & Downs - Reception Histories in Architecture
          € 22,95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-617-3


          Dutch, English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 144 pages | illustrated (50 b/w)

          OASE #108 is also available as ebook!

          Buy your copy at for example nai010, NAi Booksellers or at your local book store.

          For a sneak peek of yet another beautiful OASE issue, click on the link below!






          1. OASE 108 SNEAK PEEK.pdf608 KB
            sneak peek OASE 108
      • 2021

          1. Date string
            05/02/2021
            Title
            VIDEO: OASE #107 author Heidi Svenningsen Kajita on finding & archiving
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            As part of the online launch of OASE 107 - The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Scarlett Hessian guide us into the process of drawing collectively through the Finding & Archiving method.

            Landscape and urbanism drawings are often made at large scale, being physically much larger than the printed edition of the journal. This is why we invited some of the authors of OASE #107 who are also designers to film their drawings and tell us about the process, technique and project.

            Heidi Svenningsen Kajita is assistant professor at University of Copenhagen and currently Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark). Drawing on emerging ethnographic-architectural methodology, her practice-based research concerns relationships between architects’ practices and processes; building norms; and lived experiences.  She has taught extensively in architecture schools in Denmark, UK and Sweden. She has contributed with texts and drawings to: Mass Housing of the Scandinavian Welfare States: Past Present and Future Perspectives (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Forming Welfare (The Danish Architectural Press, 2017), and Sketching, drawing, scripting, modeling: Artifacts of designing and their knowledge practices (Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft, (2017/2020).

            Watch the video in the link below.
            1. Video Heidi Svenningsen Kajita on finding & archiving.mp4290 MB
        • 2021

            1. Date string
              24/01/2021
              Title
              VIDEO: OASE #107 author William Mann, Witherford Watson Mann Architects, on the Upper Lea Valley
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              In this video OASE #107 author and architect William Mann (Witherford Watson Mann architects, London) guides us through the process and drawings of the Upper Lea Valley.

              Landscape and urbanism drawings are often made at large scale, being physically much larger than the printed edition of the journal. This is why we invited some of the authors of OASE 107 who are also designers to film their drawings and tell us about the process, technique and project.

              OASE 107 traces the role of drawing in landscape design and urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of the last 50 years, as well as recent concerns with ecological, metabolic and process-oriented questions.


              In recent decades, the drawing practices in landscape design and urbanism have seen a number of transformations. Current developments in theory and practice have rendered the distinction between the two more diffuse. Both disciplines are no longer regarded as architecture – or gardening – ‘on a larger scale’, primarily anchored in questions of housing, land development or embellishment. Today ecology, energy transition or ‘metabolic’ issues are much more present, which leads to new forms of drawing. Leaving an object-oriented thinking behind, both disciplines seem to be convinced of the importance of the process and the impact of the factor of time. Space has become understood as an intersection – a ‘coagulation’ – of a multiplicity of flows and processes.

              Watch the video by clicking on the link below.



              1. Video William Mann on the Upper Lea Valley.mp4296 MB
          • 2020

          • 2020

            • Date string
              30/11/2020
              Title
              Now available: OASE #107 The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism
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              In recent decades, the drawing practices in landscape design and urbanism have seen a number of transformations. Current developments in theory and practice have rendered the distinction between the two more diffuse. Both disciplines are no longer regarded as architecture – or gardening – ‘on a larger scale’, primarily anchored in questions of housing, land development or embellishment. Today ecology, energy transition or ‘metabolic’ issues are much more present, which leads to new forms of drawing. Leaving an object-oriented thinking behind, both disciplines seem to be convinced of the importance of the process and the impact of the factor of time. Space has become understood as an intersection – a ‘coagulation’ – of a multiplicity of flows and processes.

              For designers it is an essential question how all these flows and processes come together, materialize, and become visible, and how their ‘spatialization’ in drawings is represented in analysis and design. The design and the drawing seem to be torn between a process-oriented agenda and a spatial intervention whose success depends on disciplinary expectations of care, materiality and intrinsic aesthetic qualities. Sustainable design not only presupposes a bold solution to the problem, but must also be beautiful, empathic and affective. What role does the drawing play – from cartography to sketch? Which traditions offer starting points? What innovations are needed?

              OASE #107
              The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism
              € 22,95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-578-7

              Guest editors: Nitin Bathla & Sumedha Garg, Paul Broekhuizen, Chiara Cavalieri, Kees Christiaanse, Elke Couchez, Roberto Damiani, Koenraad Danneels, Gini Lee & Antonia Besa, Gianna Lobosco, William Mann, Julie Marin & Bruno De Meulder, Frits Palmboom, Sandra Parvu, Pieter Schengenga, Holger Schurk, Marialessandra Secchi & Marco Voltini, Heidi Svenningsen, Marc Treib, Bram van Kaathoven

              Dutch, English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 144 pages | illustrated (50 b/w)

              OASE #107 is also available as ebook!

              Buy your copy at nai010, NAi Booksellers or at your local book store.

              1. OASE 107 EDITORIAL.pdf106 KB
          • 2020

          • 2020

            • Date string
              22/06/2020
              Title
              Call for Abstracts OASE #110
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              Abstracts of maximally 500 words must be submitted (in English or in Dutch) via info@oasejournal.nl by 15 September 2020, along with your name and e-mail address, your professional affiliation and a short bio (no more than 150 words). Read the entire Call for Abstracts of OASE #110 in the PDF.
              1. OASE 110_Soil_Call for abstracts_NL.pdf323 KB
                OASE 110 Call for Abstracts Nederlandse tekst
              2. OASE 110_Soil_Call for abstracts_ENG.pdf330 KB
                OASE 110 Call for Abstracts English text
          • 2020

            • Date string
              28/04/2020
              Title
              Now available: OASE #105 Practices of Drawing
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              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 and construct their ideas into architecture. This involvement with drawing has always been mediated through different technologies; drawing is technology. The specific practices of drawing have changed over time, however, adapting to changing technologies. In doing so they have altered the production of architecture.

              This issue of OASE looks at architectural drawings as dynamic processes that shape architectural thinking. To give insight into the relation between the tools and techniques for drawing, and the resulting architectural production and construction, OASE 105 draws from case studies that range from early sections in antiquity, the experimentation with drawing techniques on medieval construction sites, the automatization of orthographic drawing in the early Renaissance, to the more specific cases of George Aitchison’s elevations, John Ruskin’s drawing lessons, Heinrich Tessenow’s perspectives, El Lissitzky’s axonometric drawings, Lina Bo Bardi’s surrealist tableau’s and Tony Fretton’s CAD drawings.

              OASE #105
              Practices of Drawing
              € 19,95 | ISBN  978-94-6208-554-1
              Dutch, English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 128 pages | illustrated (50 b/w)

              Available at amongst others nai010 en NAi Booksellers.


          • 2019

            • Date string
              17/12/2019
              Title
              Call for Papers OASE #108
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              OASE invites everyone to hand in a contribution for OASE #108.

              This issue of OASE is interested (1) in the arguments and discourses that put buildings or urban projects in an over- or undervalued position, and (2) in the counterarguments that can be conceived in order to take them out of that position. The aim of OASE #108 is to analyse perceptions, and the conception of the counterarguments that can be mobilized to counter these perceptions.

              We are looking for texts (2000 words) that consist of two movements:

              1) The description of how a building or urban project was perceived, described, praised or criticized. Which protest movements are organized and which pamphlets, counter-projects and texts were used to praise or to discredit an architectural or urban development project?

              2) The correction of this perception – positive or negative – by a new close reading of the project and its hidden merits or failures.

              Texts must be submitted (in Dutch or in English) via info@oasejournal.nl by 16 February 2020, along with your name and email address, an abstract of the text (100 words), your professional affiliation and a short bio (no more than 150 words).

              Read the Call for all information.
              1. OASE 108_Call for Papers_ENG.pdf2.33 MB
              2. OASE 108_Call for Papers_NL.pdf2.33 MB
          • 2019

            • Date string
              21/11/2019
              Title
              Call for Abstracts OASE #107
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              OASE #107 The drawing in landscape architecture and urbanism
              Editors: Bruno Notteboom, Frits Palmboom, Bart Decroos

              OASE invites everyone to read the Call for Abstracts for OASE #107.
              We are interested in two kinds of contributions that each start from the drawing:

              1. Textual contributions: historical or theoretical papers about a (series of) drawing(s).Proposals contain one image and an abstract of 300 words.
              2. Visual contributions: a specific (series of) drawing(s) from personal/actual practice.These proposals contain the drawing(s) themselves and a caption of a maximum of 300 words through which the proposal is situated within the theme of the issue.

              Proposals must be submitted via info@oasejournal.nl by 20 December 2019 and contain a title and CV (name, email address, affiliation and a bio of maximum 150 words). Proposals must be submitted in Dutch or English.

              Read the Call for detailed information.

              1. OASE 107_Drawing in landscape architecture and urbanism_Call.pdf134 KB
          • 2019

              1. Date string
                29/10/2019
                Title
                Presentation OASE #104
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                25 November 2019 from 19.00h - 21.00h,
                auditorium Victor Bourgeois, architecture school La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

                Program:
                19.00 - 19.20: Explanation by the editors of this issue
                19.20 - 19.50: Lecture by Lionel Devlieger (Rotor)
                19.50 - 20.30: Debate between the editors, Lionel Devlieger and some of the authors
                20.30 - 21.00: Drinks

                Entrance is free and everyone is welcome!

                Address:
                architecture school La Cambre
                Place Eugène Flagey 19
                1050 Brussels
                Belgium

            • 2019

              • Date string
                29/10/2019
                Title
                Now available: OASE #104 The Urban Household of Metabolism
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                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 that have been severely disrupted by industrialization. OASE 104 explores the context of locations in which metabolism took place.

                Public washrooms, communal bread ovens and urban slaughterhouses are examples of locations of metabolism that kept communities’ urban household in order. At the same time, these places added an extra layer of meaning to the urban landscape by their specific agreements and codes of conduct that regulated and facilitated their shared use in an urban environment.

                How can architecture and urban design contribute to a politically and ecologically relevant metabolism that presupposes citizenship rather than customership? In other words, which projects can help create the conditions under which the metabolic perspective can regenerate an urban perspective on citizenship?

                OASE #104
                The Urban Household of Metabolism
                € 19.95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-517-6
                Dutch, English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 128 pages | illustrated (50 b/w)

                Available at amongst others nai010 en NAi Booksellers.





            • 2019

              • Date string
                10/09/2019
                Title
                OASE #100 selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2018!
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                We are very proud that OASE #100 was selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2018! The Best Dutch Book Designs is an annual competition where a panel of judges selects a number of books that excel in design, typography, picture editing, lithography, printing and binding. The student panel has chosen OASE #100 as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2018. 

                From the jury report: “This book could be labelled with a “thank-you” ode to the well produced and carefully considered designed OASE, edition 100.” Read the full jury report here.  

                OASE 100 is still available at nai010 or NAi Booksellers or any of your other favorite bookstores. 

            • 2019

              • Date string
                12/06/2019
                Title
                Presentation OASE #103
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                On 17 June 2019 OASE #103 will be presented at the University of Manchester. Starting at 12.30. Everyone is welcome and a lunch is provided. More information in the pdf. 
                1. OASE 103 presentation 17 June 2019.pdf889 KB
            • 2019

              • Date string
                23/05/2019
                Title
                Now available: OASE #103 Critical Regionalism Revisited
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                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 that is not familiar with the book Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980) of this renowned historian, nor with his essay ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism, Six Points of an Architecture of Resistance’ (1983). In this last text, Frampton searched for an alternative approach towards architecture by defining the specifics of topography, climate, light and tectonics as essential to the art of building.

                This issue of OASE examines the canonical role of Kenneth Frampton’s concept of ‘Critical Regionalism’, reaching beyond its traditional interpretation. It gathers contributions that propose a new genealogy of the text, critical re-readings and explorations by practicing architects and architecture theorists that evaluate the interest of Frampton’s ideas for contemporary architecture.

                OASE #103
                Critical Regionalism Revisited
                € 19.95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-486-5 
                Tom Avermaete, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Lea-Catherine Szacka | design: Karel Martens en Aagje Martens | Dutch/English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 160 p. | illustrated
                In conjunction with: ETH Zurich, Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design. 

                Available at nai010 and NAi Booksellers
            • 2019

            • 2019

              • Date string
                09/05/2019
                Title
                Launch OASE #103
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                OASE#103, Critical Regionalism Revisited
                More than 35 years ago architectural historian Kenneth Frampton propelled the concept of ‘Critical Regionalism’ in his well-known article ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism’ (1983). The article was a response to a generic and global (post)modernism. From the date of publishing until today architectural discourses witnessed references to this concept crtitical regionalism, particularly evoked by a growing concern about the local scale in a world of global powers. In the forthcoming issue of the architectural journal OASE a number of architects and architectural theorists revisited the concept, questioning its genealogy, reception over the years, and sustainability in current and future architectural and urban assignments. On Thursday May 16th 2019, the issue will be presented at the Hochparterre Bookshop in Zürich center with responses by architectural historians Stanislas von Moos and Irina Davidovici. Entrance is free and everyone is welcome, so join us on May 16th at Hochparterre! 

                Editors: Tom Avermaete, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, and Hans Teerds

                Contributors: BC Architects, Irina Davidovici, Job Floris, Kenneth Frampton, Charles Holland, Wonne Ickx, Esin Komez, Andrew Leach and Nicole Sully, Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk, Carmen Popescu, Stylianos Giamarelos, Marine Urbain, Maarten Vanden Driessche, Marjoleine van Eig.

                Graphic Design: Karel Martens and Aagje Martens

                nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2019

            • 2019

              • Date string
                27/03/2019
                Title
                Call for Papers OASE #105
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                OASE 105 Practices of Drawing
                Bart Decroos, Véronique Patteeuw, Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels (eds.)

                Following the over-saturation of rendered images in the early 2000s, in recent years we have seen a resurgence in both analogue and digital representations of architecture, often mixing different media. From Hopperian tableaus to colourful line drawings, these images play an important role in developing the identity of an architecture office, where these drawings assume a life of their own in publications, exhibitions and on social media. As such, the architectural drawing becomes an increasingly autonomous project, which is validated parallel to the design project. In contrast, this issue of OASE aims to deepen the current interest in drawings by situating the architectural drawing back at the heart of the design process. By examining the drawing as a mental space of thought for the designer on the one hand, and by grasping the drawing in its relation to the built reality on the other. The drawing techniques and instruments as well as the materiality of the media used offer keys to examine the fundamental role of drawings for architectural production.

                In this perspective, the drawing can be seen to act within design processes on various levels. (1) On a material level, the historical development of instruments and media used for making drawings, have continuously redefined the organisation of the architectural workplace, both in its spatial and technological conditions as well as in its social relations. (2) On a disciplinary level, the different types of drawings and techniques of projection rely on codified conventions, which can be seen to affect the architectural imagination and the subsequent spatial and material qualities of the resulting architectural construction. (3) And on a design level, the drawing functions as a space of autonomy for architectural production beyond the limitations and demands posed by the different parties involved in the design process.

                This issue of OASE is interested in the architectural drawing as a practice embedded in processes of design, influencing and shaping architectural production. It will specifically focus on the relation between two-dimensional drawing techniques (plan, section, elevation, axonometric drawing, perspective), their respective tools and media (pencil, pen, etching, collage, painting, CAD; paper, sketchbook, tracing paper, screen) and the organisation and results of the design and construction process. As such, we are interested in two types of contributions that focus on the drawing itself:

                (1)  Paper contributions: we invite authors to contribute to this issue with a theoretical or historical paper departing from a single (or a set of) drawing(s). This proposal should include an image and an abstract of 300 words.

                (2)  Visual contributions: we invite practitioners to send in a specific (series of) drawing(s) taken from their own practice. This proposal should include the drawing itself and a caption of maximum 300 words describing its relevance to the theme of the issue.

                Proposals for contributions should be submitted to info@oasejournal.nl by 15 May 2019 and must also include a proposed title, the contributor’s name, professional affiliation (if applicable), e-mail address and a short bio of maximum 100 words. Proposals for contributions can be submitted in Dutch or English.

                1. 20190325_OASE105_call_EN.pdf1.08 MB
                2. 20190325_OASE105_call_NL.pdf1.08 MB
            • 2019

              • Date string
                20/03/2019
                Title
                Presentation OASE #102 on 3 April 2019 during Jokerweek in Ghent
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                OASE #102 will be presented during the event Jokerweek in Ghent (Belgium), on 3 April from 18:00 – 18:30 hrs in indoor-wielerpiste ’t Kuipke in the Citadelpark in Ghent (walking distance from train station Gent St-Pieters).

                The presentation is followed by a lecture by the British architect Stephen Bates from the office SergisonBates.

                Entrance is free and everyone is welcome, so join us on 3 April in Ghent!

            • 2019

              • Date string
                17/03/2019
                Title
                Now available: OASE #102 Schools & Teachers - The Education of an Architect in Europe
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                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 Declaration radically changed the structure of architecture schools as well. Is there any tradition left to hand down to students? What skills do they need before they can enter the job market? And how about the kind of knowledge that may not be practical, but is nevertheless necessary to fully understand the culture and history of architecture? Is the architect a critical intellectual or rather a successful entrepreneur?

                This issue of OASE examines European schools and teachers from the 1960s to the present day. Do educational institutes emphasize a particular architecture? What is the relationship between design and history? What is the impact of famous architects who teach? The issue concludes with three interviews about the architecture schools of today and about the challenges for the future.

                Buy your copy at nai010 or NAi Booksellers.

            • 2018

              • Date string
                03/12/2018
                Title
                Call for Abstracts OASE #104
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                OASE #104 - THE URBAN HOUSEHOLD PRACTICE OF METABOLISM 
                David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene (eds.) 

                Yet there are collective goods which are indivisible and must be produced, or at least decided upon, by those who benefit from them, and indeed by their collectivity: social solidarity, distribu­tive justice and the general rights and duties that constitute citizenship. I call these political goods, and would maintain that not only do they need to be made attractive by other means than product diversification, but that allowing them to be judged by the same standards as modern commodities must ultimately result in a situation in which they are critically undersupplied.
                More specifically, I am arguing that citizenship is by its very essence less comfortable than customership, and if measured by the same criteria must inevitably lose out.
                — Wolfgang Streeck, ‘Citizens as Customers’, 2012.

                Metabolism is a powerful metaphor when it is understood in the original sense of the German word Stoffwechsel, as the conversion of matter from one form to another. The metabolism therefore depends on the circulation of substances between the different points that make this Stoffwechsel possible. In the history of metabolism, and the recent revaluation of the concept within urban design and architecture, particular attention has been paid to mapping and controlling the substance flows that were severely disrupted by industrialization from the nineteenth century onwards.
                [1] Much less attention has been paid to the contextualization of the places where this metabolism took place. However, these places have been the subject of substantial transformations since the beginning of the twentieth century. Some existing collective arrangements such as the washing place, the bathhouse or the well were dismantled and then redistributed between the house and the network. The urban utility systems were increasingly disappearing underground and the citizens were provided with appliances that made the metabolism in the house possible. The major transformation processes of water purification, water extraction, energy generation, composting, incineration, etcetera were given a place in a logistical landscape outside the city.

                This meant that the big metabolic processes not only became invisible to the public, but in a certain sense they were also politically ‘neutralized’, because they could no longer be used to organize a difference in the public domain. Public washing places, communal bread ovens, public baths, urban gasworks and power stations, common land of farmers, drinking water fountains on squares, the urban slaughterhouse, and so forth were once publicly managed places of metabolism, which had to help keep the urban household of a community in order. At the same time they also facilitated another form of urban accumulation because these places added an additional layer of meaning to the urban landscape: there were specific agreements and codes of conduct that regulated and enabled the shared use of these places in an urban environment.

                The contemporary transformation of the urban metabolism in function of climate and sustainability objectives subsequently generated a new rearrangement and rescaling of the places of metabolism in the city. This development leads both to further dematerialisation and to new commons and public places of exchange. The climate city is strained between the smartphone that facilitates the hyperindividualisation of urban services and the new infrastructure of water squares, heat hubs and local associations for food production that show the political-ecological interdependence of citizens and reintegrate them into their environment.

                This issue of OASE wants to look at the metabolism from the historical shifts outlined above. If architecture and urban planning can contribute anything to the debate on metabolism, it is not simply by making the ‘metabolic machine’ more efficient, by designing it better and by optimising its embedding in the environment. What forms the core of this OASE issue, is how architecture and urban design can contribute to a politico-ecologically relevant project of metabolism, which — as Streeck indicates in the above quote — assumes ‘citizenship’ rather than ‘customership’. This means that we are looking for projects that do not just follow a metabolic logic, but rather for descriptions of projects (from the present or the past) that help create the conditions under which the metabolic perspective can once again generate an urban perspective of ‘citizenship’.

                Papers for this OASE issue can take theory, history or design projects as a starting point, from the nineteenth century until today. The contributions should correspond to at least one of the descriptions below:

                A) Papers that trace what the impact of economies of scale was/is (as the dominant logic within the economy) on the metabolism and the changing presence of that metabolism in the cityscape.

                b) Papers that historically document how the shifting demarcation line between public and private has/had an impact on the conception of the points of Stoffwechsel. We are interested in how technological and social developments influence(d) the conception of metabolism and the shift between public and private.

                c) Papers that put metabolism as Stoffwechsel – and not just as a flow or circulation – back at the centre of contemporary urban projects and thereby create the possibility for new forms of citizenship and the development of an urban project.

                Proposals for contributions should be submitted to info@oasejournal.nl by 7 January 2019 and must include a proposed title, an abstract (maximum 300 words), as well as the contributor’s name, professional affiliation (if applicable), email address and a short bio (maximum 150 words). Proposals for contributions (and texts) can be submitted in Dutch or in English.

                1. OASE 104_Call for Papers EN.pdf979 KB
                2. OASE 104_Call for Papers NL.pdf960 KB
            • 2018

              • Date string
                28/11/2018
                Title
                Now available: OASE #101 Microcosm - Searching for the City in Its Interiors
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                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 the experience of the urban dweller. Every inner world of the city has its own character atmosphere and representative architectural language that supports its specific societal significance.

                In contemporary practice, these differences have largely disappeared; the logic of standardization blurs differences in meaning, but also in atmosphere. The more the exterior of buildings is invested with spectacular gestures, the more banal their interiors seem to become. 

                Rather than registering this disappearance, this issue of OASE examines a range of strategies and design instruments for the public urban interior. The editors look for architectural projects for interiors that derive their significance from a specific approach and show a recognizable element of authorship.  

                OASE #101
                Microcosm - Searching for the City in Its Interiors
                € 19.95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-469-8

                Christoph Grafe, Eva Storgaard, Sereh Mandias, Asli Cicek, Eireen Schreurs, Frédie Floré, Marius Grootveld | design: Karel Martens en Aagje Martens | Nederlands/English | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 128 p. | illustrated
            • 2018

              • Date string
                03/12/2018
                Title
                Presentation OASE #101
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                SAVE THE DATE: 4 December 2018, at 19.00 in Brussels > PRESENTATION OASE #101. Everyone is welcome! Read all about it in the flyer.
                1. Oase101_affiche_carre.pdf122 KB
            • 2018

              • Date string
                20/11/2018
                Title
                Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoel shows work of Karel Martens
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                The work of “our” graphic designer Karel Martens is on show until 19 January 2019 in Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoel, South-Korea. Naturally, his work for OASE is also shown extensively in this exhibition. 
            • 2018

              • Date string
                18/10/2018
                Title
                Interview Marius Schwarz about OASE #100
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                An interesting interview with guest-editor Marius Schwarz about his experience researching, co-editing, and co-designing OASE 100.
                Read here.
            • 2018

              • Date string
                01/06/2018
                Title
                Now available: OASE #100. Karel Martens and the Architecture of the Journal
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                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 graphic design. In doing so, it challenges the conventional idea that architecture journals are mere carriers of information, showing instead how these journals play a defining role in the message they convey.

                Adhering to Marshall McLuhan’s famous maxim ‘the medium is the message’, it considers the graphic space of the journal, its materiality, its production, and the physical experience of reading

                Within this context, the 100th issue of OASE zooms in on the relationship between architecture journals and graphic design, starting with a historical overview before considering the specific history of OASE and the practice of its own graphic designer. The aim is to provide an insight into the close and mutually enriching relationship between the graphic design of an architecture journal and the production of architectural knowledge.

                OASE #100 
                The Architecture of the Journal 
                € 39.95 | ISBN 978-94-6208-431-5 

            • 2018

            • 2018

            • 2018

              • Date string
                14/03/2018
                Title
                Presentation OASE #99
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                An impression of the presentation of OASE #99 that took place on 1 Mach 2018 in Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In the pictures are the participants of the panel discussion that discussed “What future for the Architecture Museum?”: Triin Ojari, Sofie de Caigny, Mirko Zardini, Omer Kanipak and Bernard Colenbrander.
            • 2018

                1. Date string
                  16/02/2018
                  Title
                  INVITATION: symposium OASE #99
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                  Although often overlooked, the architecture museum has arguably become one of the most significant instruments in architecture’s disciplinary apparatus. By collecting archives, producing exhibitions, funding publications, organizing lectures and discussions, and even commissioning work, architecture museums have furthered discourse and practice since their inception in the early nineteenth-century. Unlike other museums, architecture museums are not content in merely shaping the context for the appreciation of their subject but aim to equally intervene in its development, both as a discipline and as a profession.

                  OASE 99 considers the changing societal, cultural, economic, and museographical context in order to reflect on the current and future agency of these institutions. A discussion which was approached both through historical and contemporary perspectives to establish a working understanding of architecture museums as crucial nodes in architecture’s cultural and societal apparatus.

                  The public presentation of OASE 99 extends the issue’s ambitions through a panel discussion with some of its authors, providing particular insights into different institutions as well as to the three levels that organize the journals’ contributions: the specific (“micro”), the broad (“macro”), and the abstract (“meta”). The conversation will not only uncover present issues but also address future challenges.

                  OASE 99: The Architecture Museum Effect was edited by Sergio M. Figueiredo and Hüsnü Yegenoglu, and its public presentation is organized by the Curatorial Research Collective (CRC).

                  event schedule:
                  17h00: Welcome address by Sergio M. Figueiredo and Hüsnü Yegenoglu
                  17h15: position statements by speakers (Omer Kanipak, Triin Ojari, Sofie de Caigny, Mirko Zardini)
                  18h15: discussion panel moderated by Bernard Colenbrander
                  19h00: questions and answers
                  19h30: closing drinks

                  panel speakers:

                  Mirko Zardini is an architect, author, curator, and has been the Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture since 2005. His research engages with contemporary architecture by questioning and re-examining assumptions on which architects operate today. It’s All Happening so Fast, his most recent exhibition and publication, is a reflection on the often conflicting ideas about human relationships to environment. Zardini was editor for Casabella (1983 to 1988) and Lotus International (1988 to 1999), and he has taught design and theory at architecture schools including Harvard University, Princeton University, and the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University in Zurich (ETH) and in Lausanne (EPFL).

                  Sofie de Caigny is the new director of the Flemish Architecture Institute and has been the coordinator of the Center Flemish Architectural Archives of the Flemish Architecture Institute and Secretary General of ICAM - International Confederation of Architectural Museums. She holds a PhD from KU Leuven on Housing culture in Flanders during the interwar period (2007) and has given several lectures and workshops on architectural history and architectural archives. In 2016 she curated the exhibition MAATWERK MASSARBEIT. Custom Made Architecture from Flanders and the Netherlands at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

                  Triin Ojari is an Estonian art historian whose research subjects have included the 20th century modern architecture, the housing and urban planning of the Soviet period, contemporary architecture and architectural criticism. 2001-2013 acted as editor-in chief of the Estonian architectural review MAJA. Since 2014 director of the Museum of Estonian Architecture. Author of the book 21st Century House: New Estonian Residential Architecture (Tallinn, 2007) and Positions. Articles on Architecture 1992–2011 (Tallinn, 2012).

                  Ömer Kanipak received his architecture degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1994, and his Master’s degree from MIT School of Architecture, History Theory and Criticism department in 1998. He founded Arkitera Architecture Center in 2000 together with his partners and worked as the co-director of the center until 2011. He was a visiting professor of architecture in various universities in Istanbul until 2017. Kanipak is an architectural photographer and a communications consultant both in Istanbul and in London. He frequently writes on national and international publications, takes role as members of juries or consultants of national and international architectural awards.

                  Bernard Colenbrander, is professor of Architecture History and Theory at Eindhoven University of Technology. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI),in the  final years as chief curator. His publications include Stijl. Norm en handschrift in de Nederlandse architectuur (1993), Referentie: OMA. De sublieme start van een architectengeneratie (1995), De Verstrooide Stad (1999, PhD dissertation), Frans van Gool. Leven en werk (2005), Limes Atlas (2005, with MUST) and De Kroon. Een Europese wolkenkrabber (2012, with Christian Rapp). He recently published Nederlandse Kunst in de Wereld (2015, with Ton Bevers, Johan Heilbron and Nico Wilterdink) and David Chipperfield. The Embedded Nomad (2016, with Christian Rapp).

              • 2018

                • Date string
                  02/02/2018
                  Title
                  OASE #100 dedicated to OASE's graphic design, with indepth interview with Karel Martens
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                  First publication dedicated completely to OASE’s graphic design.
                  Historical perspectives on the crucial role of graphic design in the architectural field.
                  Indepth interview with Karel Martens.

                  The influential Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens [has] spent nearly 60 years developing a practice that reflects his persistent inquisitiveness.’ – New York Times

                  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 graphic design. In doing so, it challenges the conventional idea that architecture journals are mere carriers of information, showing instead how these journals play a defining role in the message they convey.

                  Adhering to Marshall McLuhan’s famous maxim ‘the medium is the message’, it considers the graphic space of the journal, its materiality, its production, and the physical experience of reading

                  Within this context, the 100th issue of OASE zooms in on the relationship between architecture journals and graphic design, starting with a historical overview before considering the specific history of OASE and the practice of its own graphic designer. The aim is to provide an insight into the close and mutually enriching relationship between the graphic design of an architecture journal and the production of architectural knowledge.

                  OASE #100 is planned to appear in May. 
                  Contributions by: Ayham Ghraowi, Mathew Kneebone, Lieven Lahaye, Louis Lüthi, Carlo Menon Laura Pappa, Véronique Patteeuw, Marius Schwarz, Linda Van Deursen. Bart Decroos, Véronique Patteeuw, Marius Schwarz

              • 2018

                  1. Klaske Havik
                • Date string
                  01/02/2018
                  Title
                  OASE #98 presented at the University of Greenwich, London
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                  OASE #98 about Narrating Urban Landscapes was presented on 1 February 2018 at the University of Greenwich, London.
                  Lectures by Bruno Notteboom, Kris Scheerlink and Klaske Havik. Image: Klaske Havik, editor of OASE, during the presentation.
              • 2017

                • Date string
                  08/12/2017
                  Title
                  Now available: OASE #99. The Architecture Museum Effect
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                  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 expressed by recent exhibitions of both renowned institutes and younger ones. By the looks of it, thematic choices are furthermore increasingly influenced by the social and political contexts of institutes. In terms of storage, new developments such as digitization also lead to radical changes, with consequences that are difficult to predict. OASE 99 analyses and questions these developments and their impact on the current and future role of architecture museums.

                  OASE 99 provides the context for understanding the current situation and examines what part architecture museums can play in the future of architecture culture.L

                  OASE 99 is now available in the bookstores. Mail info@oasejournal.nl for further information about shops that sell OASE.

                  Read the editorial in the pdf-file below. 
                  1. Beyond the Architecture Museum.pdf121 KB
              • 2017

                • Date string
                  10/11/2017
                  Title
                  Veronique Patteeuw talks to Rem Koolhaas
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                  Especially for the 25th anniversary of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam OASE editor Véronique Patteeuw, talked to architect Rem Koolhaas about the realisation, current function and the future of the building. Also OASE #94 about OMA was discussed!
              • 2017

                • Date string
                  20/10/2017
                  Title
                  Workshop & Presentation OASE #98
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                  On 19 October 2017 OASE and the KU Leuven organised a workshop for students from KU Leuven and TU Delft. Later on OASE #98 was launched by the editors of this issue and the Scientific Board of OASE. Maarten Overdijk (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)  and Bas Smets (Bureau Bas Smets) gave lectures. 
              • 2017

                  1. Date string
                    25/09/2017
                    Title
                    Launch OASE #98 Narrating Urban Landscapes
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                    Location:

                    KU Leuven
                    Faculty of Architecture
                    Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent
                    Hoogstraat 51
                    9000 Gent, Belgium

                    Program 19 October 2017:

                    7:30 p.m. > OASE and content #98 by OASE editors Véronique Patteeuw (ENSAP Lille), Klaske Havik (TUDelft), Bruno Notteboom (KULeuven)

                    7:50 p.m. > Lectures (in English) by:
                    - Maarten Overdijk (Utrecht School of the Arts, author OASE #98)
                    - Bas Smets (Bureau Bas Smets, author OASE #98)

                    8:30 p.m. > Panel discussion with Saskia De Wit (TUDelft, editor OASE#98), Klaske Havik, Bruno Notteboom, Maarten Overdijk, Kris Scheerlinck (KULeuven, author OASE #98), Bas Smets

                    9 p.m. > Drinks 

                    The launch is organized by OASE and the research group Urban Projects, Collective Spaces & Local Identities, Department of Architecture, KULeuven.

                    The entrance is free, everyone is welcome. But please register for the event via this Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presentatie-oase-98-launch-oase-98-tickets-38221823503 

                • 2017

                  • Date string
                    07/08/2017
                    Title
                    Lecture Veronique Patteeuw in New York
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                    On 18 July 2017 member of the OASE editorial staff Veronique Patteeuw discussed her work as co-editor of OASE #97 at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Click here for more details.
                • 2017

                    1. Date string
                      26/07/2017
                      Title
                      Save the date: presentation OASE #98 in Gent, Belgium on 19 October 2017
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                      More information coming soon!
                  • 2017

                    • Date string
                      26/07/2017
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                      Now available: OASE #98. Narrating Urban Landscapes
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                      View a sneak preview of OASE #98.
                      1. OASE#98 pages 1-10.pdf9.56 MB
                  • 2016

                      1. Date string
                        12/12/2016
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                        Presentation OASE 96 and lecture Interboro Partners + 1010 architecture urbanism
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                        OASE 96 examines the remarkable revival of designpractices that focus on the questions of use and appropriation in architecture. The essays in this issue proceed from the non-coinciding nature of the ways in which a building is conceived and how it is subsequently used. By means of case studies and critical reflections on a variety of architectural practices, the authors demonstrate how the use and appropriation of architecture can be part of a socio-poetic process from which architectural meaning may be derived. Between the faith in the autonomy of architecture on the one hand and design practices centred on the user on the other lies a whole range of practices that address the traditional separation between design and use in a productive way. In this issue, the contrast between design and use is not perceived as a problem that needs to be resolved, but as a productive area of tension within which architecture is created.
                         
                        Thursday 15 December 2016, at the occasion of the publication of OASE 96. Social Poetics. The architecture of use and appropriation’, Tobias Armborst (Interborro Partners) and Bert Gellynck (1010 architecture urbanism) will give a double lecture. The lecture is followed by a discussion with the (guest)editors of OASE 96, Michiel Dehaene, Els Vervloesem en Marleen Goethals. Joachim Declerck (AWB) will moderate the discussion.
                         
                        Interboro Partners is a New York city-based architecture, urban design and planning office that specializes in the design of public spaces. Their approach is place-specific and deploys design solutions and participatory processes to create open environments that work for everyone.
                        Their recent projects range from temporary installations in public space to regional development plans. Some recent examples include an art space and sculpture park in Lower Manhattan, a linkeable series of urban furniture as well as a regional resilience plan for Long Islands’ South shore that copes with the issue of floods and storms after Sandy.
                         
                        1010 [ten-ten] is a design studio for architecture and urbanism, based in Brussels. The office works at the scale of the city and strongly believes in an integral approach of the design process in which the relation between architecture, public space and society is acknowledged. They consider their role to be the one of an author and sometimes also the director, actor and producer.

                        This double lecture is part of Atelier Brussels – Urban Agenda/Public Programme. In this series Julian Lewis (EAST, UK) will give a lecture on Tuesday 29.11 at Bozar. For more information: http://www.architectureworkroom.eu/atelierbrussel/lectures/.

                        Date: Thursday 15 December 2016
                        Time: 19:00 h
                        Place: Room M, Bozar, Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussels
                        Fee: Euro 8 / Euro 5 (student) - tickets
                    • 2016

                        1. Date string
                          05/12/2016
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                          Call for papers OASE #99. The Architecture (Museum) Effect
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                          DUE JANUARY 15, 2017

                          Issue editors: Dr. Sergio M. Figueiredo and Dr. Hüsnü Yegenoglu

                          The construction, articulation, and dissemination of architecture is continuously shaped and expanded as much by individuals as by institutions. While often overlooked, the architecture museum has arguably become one of the most significant instruments in architecture’s disciplinary apparatus. By collecting architectural archives, producing exhibitions, funding publications, organizing lectures and discussions, and even directly commissioning work, architecture museums have purposefully furthered architectural discourse and practice in particular directions since their inception in the early nineteenth century. Effectively, the ambition to actively guide architecture’s development has come to characterize architecture museums. While art museums aim to (mostly) reflect on art, architecture museums aspire to actively affect architecture’s disciplinary advancement. They aspire to be instrumental in architecture’s progress. Most notably, if in the early nineteenth century the Sir John Soane Museum promoted a return to classicism, in the early twentieth century the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) advocated modern architecture, while in the late twentieth century, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) championed a postmodern architectural expression. 

                          While more or less conspicuously, the advancement of particular conceptions of architecture is transversal to all architecture museums. As custodians of architecture’s disciplinary archive, museums have come to claim a unique position within the architectural apparatus: a privileged interface between past, present, and future of the discipline. By hosting – and making available – archives of accumulated architectural knowledge, museums inherently regulate how architecture’s history is understood and how new meanings are formulated. Inevitably, even as their basic approach to architecture may differ, all museums instrumentalize the archive to validate and legitimize their specific conception of architecture. Furthermore, by stimulating the appreciation of architecture by a wide public, architecture museums also affect the very reception of architecture. With such broad engagement, architecture is compelled to reveal its issues, resolve its discrepancies, and enunciate its positions beyond disciplinary jargon or conventions. By engaging the general public with architecture, museums cultivate an educated audience that values architecture’s cultural and intellectual standing and thus can demand architectural quality. In this democratization of the architectural discipline, architecture’s perception is altered, its boundaries blurred, and new territories defined. Ultimately, it is in this multiplicity of effects, strategies, and policies that the museum’s agency within architecture is paradoxically concealed and revealed.

                          This OASE issue considers the often unacknowledged agency of the architecture museum in shaping architectural discourse and practice while also questioning existing assumptions and investigating the changing context and agency for these institutions. However, the upcoming issue will be not only focus on international well-known institutions as the DAM and the MoMA, that are established within advanced metropolitan centers, but equally take a look into institutions that operate in developing countries. How are architecture museums adapting to changing patterns of production and consumption of architecture and cultural events? How can these institutions mediate the relation between the general public and architecture?  What role should they play in current architecture culture? What is the agency of a disciplinary archive in these institutions? How can these institutions foster inclusive public spheres for architecture? How are spectacle and imagery problematized within these institutions? How can collection and exhibition advance architecture? How do these institutions engage with political and economic power structures? How do emerging and established institutions diverge in their approach and praxis? By engaging all these, and other pressing issues, this OASE issue will clear the ground and provide a framework for understanding the present condition and project the future for architecture museums.

                          To engage with these and other pressing issues, we invite contributions that reflect on the practices of particular institutions and/or reveal emerging trends across the field. We invite contributions that productively collide theory and practice, specifically, contributions that reveal rather than smooth the breaks, difficulties, tensions, and discontinuities, within and between architecture museums, their history and their future. 

                          The aim of OASE 99 is establish a working understanding of architecture museums as institutions and nodes in architecture’s cultural apparatus. To engage critically with different perspectives and use historical and theoretical grounding to uncover the presence and relevance of architecture museums institutions in contemporary architecture culture.

                          Proposals for contributions should be submitted by email to issue editors Sergio M. Figueiredo (S.M.Figueiredo@tue.nl) and Hüsnü Yegenoglu (h.h.yegenoglu@tue.nl) by JANUARY 15, 2017, and must include a proposed title, an abstract (maximum 300 words), as well as the contributor’s name, professional affiliation (if applicable), email address and a short bio (maximum 300 words).
                      • 2016

                          1. Date string
                            01/12/2016
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                            Presentation of OASE #97 on 12 December 2016 in Antwerp
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                            Program presentation OASE #97 on 12 December 2016:

                            • 19.30: walk in
                            • 20.00: the program will start with a lecture by Willem Jan Neutelings, after which Xaveer De Geyter will give his reaction. On the basis of some projects Xaveer De Geyter and Willem Jan Neutelings will continue talking about action and reaction in architecture
                            • 22.00: drinks

                            Location:
                            The “Blauwe Foyer” of deSingel, Desguinlei 25, Antwerp (Belgium)

                            The program will be in Dutch.
                        • 2016

                            1. Date string
                              25/10/2016
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                              Klaske Havik presents OASE #95 in Bogotá, Colombia
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                              On 28 October 2016 Klaske Havik – member of the editorial board of OASE – will be the closing speaker during the Semana del Arquitecto in Bogotá, Colombia. She will present OASE #95 and talk about transcultural practices in architecture and urbanism. The event is organised by the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos Bogotá.
                          • 2016

                              1. Date string
                                01/09/2016
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                                Exhibition about Karel Martens in New York
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                                Press release by P!

                                P! is thrilled to present the first North American solo exhibition of renowned Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. Having played a crucial role within the gallery’s program, Martens now premieres a body of work – including his signature letterpress monoprints, an interactive video installation, a modular wall-covering system, and a kinetic clock sculpture – that extend his nearly 60 year experimentation with color, overprinting, patterning, and time.

                                Martens’ work emerges from a set of seemingly disparate concerns. An interest in precision and process accompanies sheer aesthetic intuition and the beauty of chance; his focus on the permanence of printing exists side-by-side with a fascination for clocks and the ephemeral passing of moments. In all of this, Martens aspires to something that may seem unfashionable today: to create timeless, abstract works, expressions of his continuous exploration and formal invention.

                                Building upon Martens’ early kinetic work of the 1960s, a new clock sculpture – composed of three multi-colored disks that rotate according to hours, minutes, and seconds – transforms the flow of time into a phenomena of form and color. In contrast, a grid of letterpress monoprints from the past year displays Martens’ intimate engagement with paper and ink. Overprinted with as many as ten layers on found administrative cards, these unique prints produce surprising and complex visual effects.

                                Presented at P! in a wall-scale installation, Martens’ conceptual wallpaper system stems from his investigations into printing technology and permutational systems. Offset-printed A4 sheets featuring stripes of varying thickness, rendered in different colors, function as analog pixels in a do-it-yourself graphic kit. The show’s final work is an interactive video application that translates the camera’s vision into a custom pattern language. Viewers control the scale and density of the pattern, reflecting Martens’ interest in the open-ended and ongoing process of image-making.

                                Karel Martens: Recent Work
                                11 September – 30 October 2016
                                Opening reception: Sunday, 11 September, 6 – 8pm

                            • 2016

                              • Date string
                                01/06/2016
                                Title
                                Now available: OASE #96. Social Poetics — The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
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                                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 this process, and what is the possible positive or negative social impact of these interventions? This issue focuses on case studies, practical experience, critical refl ection and ideas that show how architects and urban planners proactively deploy reuse in view of future user opportunities and/or applications.

                                Between the faith in the autonomy of architecture on the one hand and design that centres on the user on the other lies a whole range of practices that address the traditional separation between design and use in a radical way. In this issue, the contrast between design and use is not perceived as an issue that needs to be resolved, but as a productive area of tension within which architecture is created.
                            • 2016

                                1. Date string
                                  29/05/2016
                                  Title
                                  Call for Papers: OASE 98. Narrating Urban Landscapes
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                                  This issue of OASE brings together an interest in the perception and design of urban landscapes with a particular methodological view. In urban planning and landscape practices developed in recent decades, notions such as ‘sense of place’ and site-specificity have been reintroduced as leading concepts, especially in redevelopment of ‘post-productive’ landscapes: former industrial areas, brownfields, harbours, mining sites, etcetera. Here, the landscape was transformed and manipulated rigorously in favour of industrial production processes, and often planned from a bird’s-eye perspective, according to tabula rasa methods or zoning plans projected directly from the drawing table onto the territory. In redesigning and making accessible such spaces, this abstracting perspective made way for an approach taking into account the experience on the terrain, rooting the identity of a site in a retracing of former uses. Therefore, in much of these reconversion projects (for example in Emscher Park), design approaches are called in that claim to ‘read’ the different layers and meanings of a site, understood as the locus of different stories, which can be revealed, reconstructed and altered. Today, a new type of redevelopment is high on the agenda: that of suburban areas around or between cities. Built mainly in the post-Second World War period, these urban landscapes are subject to far-reaching demographic changes and development pressure, especially because most city centres and the above-mentioned post-productive landscapes are becoming fully developed. However, suburban areas often seem to lack the site-specificity and the history of inner cities and brownfields. An important challenge is how to enhance the legibility of an urban landscape that has been planned in a seemingly chaotic way, from tabula rasa planning to a piecemeal infill, juxtaposing layers and – often contradictory – meanings? If suburbia is to become city, what is its ‘sense of place’? And what is the story that holds it together?

                                  This issue of OASE investigates narrative approaches of analysis and design of both post-productive and suburban landscapes. How are narrative means (textual as well as visual) used as a way to (re)construct stories of landscapes, to reveal site-specific identities, to investigate experiential qualities, to place the subject back in the centre of the analysis and design project? How does narrativity foster the experience of temporality and history in the experience of landscape? A fertile ground for such explorations, in which the ‘reading’ of the urban landscape became subject of urban investigation, can be found in the critical responses to the abstracting perspective of modern architecture and urban planning, for instance by the British Townscape movement, and in the interest in the subject’s experience of the urban landscape in the work of American designers and researchers such as Kevin Lynch, Lawrence Halprin, Edmund Bacon, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In the course of the 1960s and 1970s, their field of interest shifted from the inner city to suburbia and highway landscapes, which were in full development at the time. They used a wide range of media that can be described as ‘narrative’: ‘serial views’, interviews, mental mapping and they experimented with the juxta- and superposition of photographic images, sketches, text and maps. However, this interest in experiential and narrative aspects of urban landscapes has its precedents in older site-specific and experience-oriented approaches (for example Camillo Sitte’s attempt to link the modern city to the specificity of the site and the pedestrian experience), as well as in landscape architecture (for example the picturesque garden, specifically designed from a routing as a narrative structure).

                                  This issue of OASE aims to explore the legacy of these historical approaches, and seeks appropriations of such methods to address today’s questions of urban landscapes. We are looking for two types of contributions. First, we invite contributions of/on (landscape) architects and urban planners using a narrative approach in analysis and design today. Which techniques are used, and how are they brought into practice? Second, we invite theoretical and/or historical reflections, taking the exploration of the experiential and narrative aspects of urban landscape in history as a starting point for a critical reflection. Who constructs the narrative, how and why? How does the narrative relate to power relations? Can narrativity provide a way of conceiving of subject-object, reader-writer as active relationships instead of as opposites?

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                                  he aim of this issue of OASE is to understand the historical foundations of the concept of narrativity in reading and designing the (urban) landscape, and to uncover the relevance of narrativity for today’s practice.

                                  Please send your abstract of max. 500 words before July 15, 2016 to info@oasejournal.nl
                                  Notification of results: 25 July 2016
                                  Papers: max. 3000 words
                                  Deadline: 15 September 2016
                                  Release of the issue: May 2017

                              • 2016

                                • Date string
                                  18/01/2016
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                                  Now available: OASE #95. Crossing Boundaries — Transcultural Practices in Architecture and Urbanism
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                                  OASE #95 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 a condition of displacement – in other words in relation to cultures, far away or nearby, that are not their own. The issue wants to contribute to the contemporary debate on the effects of globalization and transcultural processes on architecture and urbanism.

                                  In a typical OASE fashion, it combines historical analysis with contemporary reflection and project documentation. Essays are particularly concerned with the ways that a transcultural modus operandi influences the tools and approaches of architects, as they attempt to engage with unfamiliar conditions, sites and agencies.

                                  Historical case studies on the approaches of Constantinos Doxiadis, Michel Ecochard, Jacqueline Tyrwhitt Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry are confronted with reflections on contemporary transcultural design practices.
                              • 2015

                                  1. Date string
                                    12/11/2015
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                                    Audio recording presentation OASE #94 online on YouTube
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                                    The audio recording of the presentation of OASE #94 with Rem Koolhaas in De Kunsthal on 3 September 2015 is now available online on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/OMUWyFEI9p8
                                • 2015

                                  • Date string
                                    17/08/2015
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                                    Presentation of OASE 94 with Rem Koolhaas on Thursday 3 September 2015 in The Kunsthal
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                                    On Thursday 3 September 2015 OASE 94, devoted to the early work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas, will be presented at the auditorium of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.

                                    The editors of this issue, Christophe Van Gerrewey and Véronique Patteeuw, will have a conversation with Rem Koolhaas on the first decade of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, 1972–1989.

                                    Doors open at 19:00, program starts at 19:30. Admission € 10 or € 27,50 (including a copy of OASE 94).
                                    Please reserve your tickets by e-mail: info@nai010.com.
                                • 2015

                                    1. Date string
                                      12/08/2015
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                                      CORRECTION: OASE 94. Parc de la Villette competition 1982
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                                      Mr. Bernard Tschumi has informed the editors of OASE of a misattribution in the text of George Baird, published in OASE 94 (OMA — The First Decade), on the competition for Parc de la Villette in 1982. Mr. Tschumi did not participate in the competition together with Alexandre Chemetoff. There was no joint Tschumi/Chemetoff submission. The landscape design of the 125-acre Parc de la Villette was entirely Bernard Tschumi’s responsibility (Mr. Chemetoff was simply invited by Tschumi to design a small 2-acre sunken bamboo garden). Only the Tschumi scheme won a majority of the votes in the 21-person jury.
                                      Following the announcement by Mr. Tschumi, Mr. Baird has asked to make public the following statement: “I thank Bernard Tschumi for correcting the credits for his winning entry to the Parc de la Villette competition, and apologize to him - and to the readers of OASE - for this misattribution.” In the digital version of OASE 94, to be published next year, the credits will be corrected.
                                      The editoral team of OASE apologizes for this misunderstanding, to all parties involved and to the readers of the journal.


                                  • 2015

                                      1. Date string
                                        09/07/2015
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                                        Call for papers: OASE 96. Social Poetics — The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
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                                        Els Vervloesem, Marleen Goethals, Hüsnü Yegenoglu, Michiel Dehaene

                                        This issue of OASE is situated within a tradition that gives a central role to questions of use and appropriation in architectural reflection. The general attention to use and appropriation is part and parcel of a layered critique of architecture. The critique of a vulgar take on functionalism in favour of an open interpretation of the relationship between form and use (Rossi). The critique of commodification by placing the focus on use value rather than exchange value (Lefebvre). The critique of the hegemony of design (and the designer) in favour of design practices centred around use and usership (Jacobs, Gehl).

                                        This issue of OASE will focus on the marked revival of forms of architecture that explicitly address questions of use and appropriation in the development of a sociocritical architecture. How can designers incorporate experience and use into their design process and architecture projects? Is this self-obvious or a point of contention? To what extent are designers ready to engage in processes of use and appropriation?

                                        Between the belief in the autonomy of architecture on the one hand, and heteronomic, user-centred forms of design on the other, lies a broad spectrum of practices that radically question the traditional separation between design and use. In this issue, the opposition of design and use, of autonomy and heteronomy, is not addressed as a matter to be resolved, but rather as a productive force field for architectural production, as a dialectic to be spatially articulated and from which architecture and the city may derive meaning. In short, OASE #96 wishes to explore architectural projects that put great stock in the poetics of use and appropriation in the production of architectural meaning.

                                        Call for Papers

                                        We invite contributions of maximum 1500 words discussing critical architectural or urbanist design practices that mobilise use and appropriation as poetic material. These practices will be combined to produce both case-specific insights and shared ideas and arguments. In this way, we hope to move beyond the polemical theoretical discussions that have dominated this subject in the past. We ask authors to explicitly address the position adopted by themselves or other designers in the creation and articulation of possibilities of use. The papers must present a specific project or design practice that sheds light on the conceptual framework, the underlying motivations and the specific context in which this practice was developed.

                                        The central question in this issue of OASE is how design can proactively engage with future users and possibilities of use. This involves much more than the legitimation of design choices and is not limited to discussions on user participation or user-centred design. We are, for example, interested in the various ways in which possibilities of use are conditioned by changes in the public or private character of a space, its accessibility, its visibility, etcetera. We are equally interested in projects that carve out conditions outside of the public-private dichotomy and create new collective worlds, new commons, counter spaces of the urban regularity. We would like to include practices that move beyond the classical role play of client, architect, user, and situate design in a broader ecology of actors and users. We are looking for practices that display a keen awareness of the possible positive or negative impact of architectural or urban intervention and incorporate that reflection in the design. Strategies that work for the protection of the city as use value against the effects of land speculation, for instance, belong in this category. We are looking projects that conceive of use as a learning process and explore together with users the changing meaning of architecture. There is room for places concerned with reuse, reappropriation and the recycling of building elements and materials. We are interested in projects that work with traces of use (cf. usure), that conceive of use as patina rather than wear and tear. In the relationship between architecture and furnishing, and between furniture and its use we may also find clues for an architecture of appropriation. We look for contributions discussing questions of multiple use and appropriation, of different temporalities of use, time windows and rhythms, temporary and permanent.

                                        Deadline for full papers: 20 August 2015

                                        Papers may be written in English or in Dutch.
                                        You may contact the editors to discuss possible contributions.
                                        The selection of papers will be made in function of the quality of the papers and the diversity of practices.

                                        evervloesem@architectureworkroom.eu
                                        Michiel.Dehaene@ugent.be

                                    • 2015

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                                        15/05/2015
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                                        Translucent oppositions. OMA’s proposal for the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale. Léa-Catherine Szacka in conversation with Rem Koolhaas and Stefano de Martino
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                                        Léa-Catherine Szacka [LCS]: In 1980, OMA was invited to be one of the 20 exhibitors in the Strada Novissima at the Venice Biennale, entitled The Presence of the Past. Last year, in the catalogue of the 14th Biennale, you referred to that exhibition, saying that it felt like the end of architecture ‘as we know it’, and pointing out to the beginning of the Reagan era in 1981 and to the advent of neoliberalism. The Strada Novissima was a marketplace, the perfect performative space of consumption. How did you perceive this pivotal ‘postmodern’ moment?

                                        Rem Koolhaas [RK]: I think the year 1980 marked the introduction of postmodernism at an enormous scale in Europe. I have always thought that postmodernism was the style par excellence of market economy. There was a strange discrepancy: probably the thinkers involved in the exhibition had the impression that they were working on a highly intellectual enterprise, with a lot of historical sophistication and dimension. But actually, I, at the time, perceived the exhibition as the first manifestation of the free market. The Strada Novissima showed what architecture, ruled by the market economy, would imply.

                                        figure 1: Strada Novissima, Venice Architecture Bienniale 1980 (© Paolo Portoghesi).

                                        LCS: It was not the inception of postmodernism, it was merely its diffusion to a larger public.

                                        RK: It was the Europeanization of postmodernism. I lived in New York in the 1970s, so I was there when American postmodernism was born and when the arguments for it were being developed. I had an intimate overview of all the authors and how they interacted. I was alert to what postmodernism implied and I was horrified when I realized that it had reached Europe. That is probably why I tried to show a strong opposition to it. Taking part in the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale was the occasion to make my opposition manifest.

                                        LCS: As stated in the catalogue you were asked to design a facade: ‘your dwelling or a personal museum, a space for the exhibition and “sale” of your own ideas’. In other words: a billboard or a self-portrait. You went for a very simple design: a semi-translucent canvas, exposing the Arsenale. Lifted in the bottom left corner, the fabric was pierced by a red pole holding a neon sign saying OMA (or AMO). Your facade was not a copy of a facade from another project. It was a project in itself. How did it come about?

                                        RK: Stefano made the drawings. We always had difficulties designing facades so this project was confronting us with our incompetence in a way. We had to do a kind of anti-facade or a non-facade.

                                        Stefano de Martino [SdM]: The piece of canvas was a temporary screen – the only concession to an exterior presence was the OMA neon sign. We did not play the formalist game, proving that architecture can be very little, that you can concentrate on content.

                                        figure 2: Strada Novissima, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, drawing by Stefano de Martino (© OMA).

                                        LCS: Rem, in 2011 you said, in an interview with Charles Jencks in Architectural Design: ‘we were uncomfortable with the notion of the street’.

                                        RK: I hated the idea of having to do a facade, even more a facade to represent oneself. So there were essentially a number of things that we wanted to avoid.

                                        SdM: Yes, and the Biennale confirmed that we were on the right track. To know that we were in a minority was exhilarating. We upset a lot of people. Everyone else fell into a camp: the morphologists who couldn’t help considering cities as pieces of cheese that you cut up in blocks, and those who could only think of the ‘wow factor’ of their inventions… We were trying to see what was essential, before you need bricks. When you have a system of relations, then you have architecture.

                                        LCS: Your facade, like all the others, was built by the set designers of Cinecittà. In what way did this imposed collaboration between architecture and cinema change the outcome? Could we speak of a fictional element in the facade?

                                        RK: Our facade was fundamentally different. It was not even made by the Cinecittà technicians. But I think that the role of Cinecittà in the exhibition was tremendously interesting in the sense that it represented an early announcement of how unsubstantial architecture had become. Delirious New York was also about that: showing that architecture was no longer a substance but an illusion.

                                        SdM: We were never into facadism. Maybe now that it’s all about facades, you don’t hear this word anymore, but at the time it was an insult. We saw the Strada Novissima as a kind of postmodern Potemkin village. Knowing the people invited, we could very well imagine what would happen. We knew it would be a horrendous pastiche. Our project moved in another direction: it was ephemeral, non-referential, and it produced its own logic, defining a situation instead.

                                        LCS: Behind the facade you presented two projects concerned with preservation: one dealing with a medieval fortress, the extension of the Dutch parliament in The Hague (1978); and the renovation of the panopticon prison in Arnhem (1980). These projects resonated with the gesture of the wall: they were about opening the wall, creating a breach. How and why were these projects shown?

                                        RK: We didn’t have a lot of work, and these were the two things that we were working on. By coincidence they both addressed the conversion of historical compound. The approach did not fit with the exhibition mentality. It was a convenient demonstration of how history could be approached in a different way. It was only when I started working on Cronocaos that I realized how consistently that has been a theme of our work. To some extent, I am a child of that mentality, but it took a different expression.

                                        SdM: Next to the large charcoal, the watercolour drawings and the tiny models in plexi cases was Rem’s text ‘Our New Sobriety’, with the assertion that ‘the plan is of primary importance’. I remember quite some people were puzzled: ‘What is he saying? Ma che…?!’. But that was the real message. Rem wrote the text in ten minutes flat, in London. This manifesto was published in the catalogue for OMA’s first retrospective at the AA, in 1981.

                                        RK: The text, together with our non-facade, was a way of asserting difference.

                                        figure 3: Strada Novissima, OMA/Rem Koolhaas (© Charles Jencks).

                                        LCS: You elaborated the project for the Strada Novissima parallel to the study for Boompjes Rotterdam (1980) and for housing projects in Berlin: Kochstrasse/Friedrichstrasse (1980) and Lützowstrasse (for IBA 1984).

                                        RK: For Boompjes we were invited after the Biennale. It was the moment of separation between Elia Zenghelis and myself. The Dutch parliament project was still a collaboration, while the prison one was already just us. The separation was never about issues, it was just that it became difficult to work on the emergence of an architecture office, as a team. I don’t think that the Biennale influenced these projects, nor the other way around, but it could be that the Biennale made Boompjes possible, that it helped us to get the commission. A lot of things were coming together: in 1978 I published Delirious New York, then we almost won the competition for the Dutch parliament, and then there was the Biennale.

                                        SdM: The Koch/Friedrichstrasse project was an alternative to the idea of the city current at the time – the street, making facades, rebuilding blocks… It took as a model the courtyard house, which has a boundary but no facade, and a void at its core, the inversion of a block. Next to the Berlin Wall, on a site with little substance left, this seems almost contextual…

                                        LCS: What about the relation between the Strada and later OMA-projects?

                                        SdM: The polemic was more relevant than the project itself. With the proposals for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, right after the competition for Parc de la Villette in 1982, we elaborated an immaterial, ephemeral architecture to get away from representation, especially in relation to the national pavilions. Architecture as national representation becomes very exhibitionist: it’s all about facades. In our proposal, the plan organises the activities on the two sites, focusing on the systemic aspects of the program, creating conditions for specific interpretations. It was abstract, but we had no trouble – and a lot of fun – to translate that into scenarios through collages.

                                        LCS: The project for the Strada Novissima is not mentioned in official chronologies: not in S,M,L,XL, neither on the OMA website. Do you consider it as an architectural project or more as a discursive endeavour, a text, transformed into ephemeral architecture?

                                        RK: I think that project was important because it was the first time we were recognized as part of an official group. It is an oversight rather than a deliberate repression. It has to do with the fact that, at the time, the office was a fiction. Stefano de Martino and I were working at my home. It was like a pre-office.

                                        figure 4: Strada Novissima, OMA/Rem Koolhaas (© Charles Jencks).

                                        LCS: If we do read your facade as postmodern, should we consider it as a sign (Venturi), a historic fragment (Rossi), or a communication device (Jencks)?

                                        RK: Of course, we wanted to appeal to the street. We made the neon sign to find a blatant and perhaps American way of appealing – a sort of Venturian sign. The funny thing was that Venturi, at the time, was very much criticized, even in America. In New York the scene was dominated by Peter Eisenman and Robert Stern, and the two of them agreed that Venturi should be ‘out’.

                                        LCS: Out of what?

                                        RK: Out of everything he could be kept out of: out of books, out of architecture, out of history… They were united in hatred and contempt for Venturi. I was close to Eisenman, but I was also close to Venturi. I have always told Eisenman that one of the weaknesses of his intellectual position was his polemical blindness. Nevertheless, part of my reading of the 1980 Biennale was that Stern won.

                                        LCS: The exhibition was hijacked and became perceived as historicist?

                                        RK: Whether it was historicist or not, I don’t really care, but Stern won simply as an influence. And with that it became a commercial proposition, representing the kind of postmodernism that became the style of choice for developers. That was very visible and I think Europeans were so naive that they couldn’t see that.

                                        LCS: Portoghesi, when embarking on the daunting task of organizing the Biennale, asked Charles Jencks but also Robert Stern, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Vincent Scully and Kenneth Frampton to be part of the organization committee – Frampton soon quit because he didn’t agree with the curatorial and theoretical positions. Who do you think was responsible for your presence?

                                        RK: I think it was Jencks. I didn’t know Portoghesi. At the Biennale I shook his hand, but barely talked to him. Now, in retrospect, I think he is a very interesting architect. But with Jencks and Frampton, I was in an extremely unstable situation. I was a friend of Jencks since 1968, when I met him at the AA. Of course, I totally disagreed with Jencks’ positions and I still do, but we remained good friends. A little later, in the 1970s, I became friends with Frampton. In the 1970s, I agreed with his position. When I was writing Delirious New York he became more and more negative about my work. He thought it was terrible to write about Dalí. At the beginning of the 1970s Frampton had a good sense of me; at the end of the decade, he had a bad one.

                                        figure 5: Strada Novissima, Venice Architecture Biennale 1980 (© Paolo Portoghesi).

                                        LCS: Another ‘official group’ came eight years later, when you took part in the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at MoMA.

                                        RK: In the Strada Novissima the majority of people was supporting and endorsing the message of the exhibition. They thought they could assert a particular thing. But no one wanted to be a Deconstructivist. In this way, 1980 was the last time a kind of coherence emerged between architects; in 1988, this had become impossible.

                                        LCS: The Strada Novissima was the end of an agreement between architects?

                                        RK: Exactly. If anyone was responsible for the Deconstructivist exhibition, it was Johnson. He really felt the need to reassert his power and to declare an agenda. He was convinced of being the true curator of the 20th century.

                                        LCS: If Johnson’s move was political, so could have been Portoghesi’s. He was very close to Bettino Craxi who was head of the PSI in 1980 and Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987. Did you sense a political agenda in 1980? Was the exhibition linked to the political climate, to the tension of the anni di piombo?

                                        RK: I missed that completely, partly because I had been living in America until 1979. It’s only in the last twenty years that I got a better understanding of Italian politics. Maybe it was asserting the possibility of a more cheerful Italy, but that would not have occurred to me at the time.

                                        LCS: What happened after? It is difficult to assess or measure the ‘impact’ of an exhibition but it’s interesting to question the leap from the street of papier maché to the postmodern architecture of the 1980s. Some see the IBA, the Internationale Bauaustellung in Berlin, as a transposition of the Strada in the city.

                                        RK: There is definitely a connection. It’s difficult: at a certain moment something is in the air…

                                        SdM: The IBA owed a lot to the Strada. In 1979, it had been taken over by Josef Paul Kleihues and Vittorio Lampugnani, who propounded the idea of critical reconstruction to fill up a city that was losing inhabitants in droves. They operated with the idea of completing streets where there were no streets left, something like Woody Allen cloning the Leader from his nose in SleeperAnd of course the cadavre exquis that typified the Strada Novissima showed that you could produce diversity within a strict scheme.

                                        LCS: Was it important to be part of that vibe at the beginning of the eighties?

                                         RK: I love being part of a group, but when the moment is there I find it terribly uncomfortable. I probably experienced a mixture of anxiety and fun.

                                        LCS: You said at one point you were not so different from the others in the Strada Novissima.

                                        RK: No, I wasn’t that much different. That is the whole point of Delirious New York: exaggerate the differences. You have no idea how controversial the idea was at the time to work on New York. Everyone thought it was a serious mistake and an irrelevant subject. And that is why I was always interested in Venturi and Scott Brown. Because I realized that they were extremely smart and creative in the way they looked at things. I wanted to be part of that.

                                        LCS: So, in retrospect, you were postmodern?

                                        RK: I don’t know. I think everyone is. One exhibition I was happy to be part of was Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in 1985. I really felt at home, much more than at the Biennale, and much more than in the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition. In Les Immatériaux, I showed the Boompjes project – it is, by the way, very similar to the Rotterdam building we recently (and finally) realized. I felt close to that exhibition because it was not connected to an architectural movement: it proposed a kind of thinking through a condition. I have always felt closer to Lyotard and Latour or to other French intellectuals than to any one in America or England. It was exhilarating! It was Pompidou at its best and its most profound. It had nothing to do with matter or substance – it was concerned with thought.


                                    • 2015

                                      • Date string
                                        16/04/2015
                                        Title
                                        Now available: OASE 94. OMA. The First Decade
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                                        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 of the world-famous office of Rem Koolhaas.
                                        The proposals, plans and projects, both implemented and not, are subjected to critical appraisal and richly illustrated with fascinating, often unfamiliar visual material in this OASE. The projects include the residence of the Irish Prime Minister (1979), the design competition for Parc de la Villette in Paris (1982), Villa Palestra for the Milan Triennale (1986) and the designs for the City Hall in The Hague (1986) and the Swiss Hotel Furkablick (1988).

                                    • 2014

                                    • 2014

                                      • Date string
                                        11/11/2014
                                        Title
                                        Film screening at launch OASE 93
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                                        On 20 November 2014 OASE and the Architecture Film Festival, will screen “Robinson in Ruins” by Patrick Keiller in Floriscoop Rotterdam at the launch of the new OASE #93 magazine. The film will be introduced by the editors Michiel Dehaene and Claudia Faraone in English. Entrance is 5 euro. Seats are limited, please reserve a seat by filling in the form on the website of the AFFR.

                                        Thursday November 20th 2014,
                                        19.30 hrs Floriscoop, 
                                        Graaf Florisstraat 88a
                                        Rotterdam

                                        Film synopsis:
                                        Patrick Keiller’s latest sees his shadowy, somewhat eccentric titular researcher embark on another tour of ‘sites of scientific and historical interest’ in and around Oxford.
                                        A decade after his earlier trips around London and England, film cans and writings are discovered suggesting that Robinson - though is that his real name - resumed his investigations upon release from prison. Keen to cure the world of ‘a great malady’ (symptoms include the banking crisis, global warming, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the transfer of British land to obscure owners), Robinson sought - or so we’re told by an ex-lover (Vanessa Redgrave) of the now deceased narrator of the first two films - to communicate with ‘non-human intelligences’ determined to preserve life on Earth… Keiller’s witty, revealing script weaves together philosophy, the arts, history, politics, economics, science, agriculture, architecture and much else, even as surreal, mysterious and beautiful images, imbued with a deep love of the natural world, remind us of what’s at risk. Timely indeed.
                                    • 2014

                                      • Date string
                                        02/05/2014
                                        Title
                                        Call for papers OASE 94. O.M.A. — The First Decade
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                                        Theme Editors:


                                        In 1989, from March 4th to April 16th, the first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of O.M.A./Rem Koolhaas, was organised in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Partly, O.M.A. — The First Decade was organized (and received) as a reckoning with Koolhaas’ home country: the office had lost many major competitions, for example in Den Haag or Rotterdam. Only a third of the 42 projects O.M.A. made between 1978 and 1989 got executed. At the opening night of the exhibition, Koolhaas said to a Dutch newspaper: ‘I believe that the Netherlands would have been a better country if at least a part of our plans were realised, and I say this rather stoically than rancorously.’

                                        With this theme issue of OASE we would like to transcend national or polemical discussions, and look at the architectural production of O.M.A. during this first decade, leading to 1989 – a mythical but at the same time not very well-known period in the history of the office. We want to take a closer and critical look at the proposals, plans and projects themselves, for example in order to examine if – and why – they would indeed have contributed to a better spatial or social environment. Rather than focusing on – especially in the recent O.M.A.-research – important issues such as mediatisation, reception or discursive embeddedness, we want to contribute to this research by means of a fresh critical look on the architectural works.

                                        In order to do so, we seek two different kinds of contributions. On the one hand, authors are invited to pick one O.M.A.-project out of the enclosed list of 42 items (produced between 1978 and 1989), and discuss it – short (maximum 1.5000 words) but insightful. What was at stake? What was the precise architectural move or decision? And how did the design fail or succeed? On the other hand, authors are invited to discuss one koolhaasian architectural technique from this period, in a more voluminous text (up to 2.000 words). What kind of formal regime was installed, and how did it deal with context? Was there a filiation visible with contemporary or historical architecture? And what where the ideas and convictions behind these architectural tactics?

                                        We hope that this issue of OASE will shed new light on what was one of the most productive and provocative decades in the history of any modern architectural practice, exactly by showing how the architecture of O.M.A. ‘worked’ – spatially, formally and contextually.

                                        The submission deadline for all manuscripts (in English or in Dutch) for this theme issue is August 15, 2014, 5 pm US Eastern Time Zone. Submission does not guarantee publication. Accepted articles will be published in issue 94 (April 2015). For author instructions please consult the submission guidelines.

                                        Refer all inquiries to: christophe.vangerrewey@ugent.be
                                        1. FIRSTDECADE.pdf35.6 KB
                                          List of O.M.A. projects
                                        2. OASE_guidelines for articles.pdf50.8 KB
                                          Guidelines for articles
                                        3. OASE_kopijaanwijzingen.pdf55.9 KB
                                          Kopij-aanwijzingen
                                    • 2014

                                      • Date string
                                        29/04/2014
                                        Title
                                        Unique Presentation of OASE 91 in Amsterdam
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                                        A conversation about atmosphere in architecture.

                                        Two world-renowned European architects, Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasmaa, have both identified atmosphere as a core theme of architecture. In architectural journal OASE 91 Building Atmosphere, Zumthor and Pallasmaa engage in a conversation about building atmosphere. This issue of OASE also includes an excerpt of the bookArchitektur und Atmosphäre by German philosopher Gernot Böhme, and his reflection on the notion of atmosphere in the work of Peter Zumthor andJuhani Pallasmaa. On April 29th OASE invites these three men to continue this conversation live on stage. 

                                        Presentation

                                        Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
                                        Time: 8 — 10 p.m.
                                        Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
                                        Language: English
                                        Admission: € 25,00

                                        Ticket sales will start from Wednesday April 2nd 3 PM via www.dezwijger.nl/oase91. The number of places is limited. Maximum of two tickets per order.

                                        Programme


                                        OASE 91 Building Atmospheres

                                        ‘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 manages to move me. What on earth is it that moves me? How can I get it into my own work? … How do people design things with such a beautiful, natural presence, things that move me every single time. One word for it is Atmosphere.’ — Peter Zumthor

                                        OASE 91 Building Atmosphere also features a number of architectural projects, presented though a reading by literary writers, filmmakers and other professionals in whose disciplines atmosphere is a main concern. 

                                        Editors: 

                                        With contributions by:

                                        Order a copy via www.nai010.com/oase91 (€ 19.95)
                                    • 2014

                                      • Date string
                                        10/03/2014
                                        Title
                                        Now available: OASE 92. Codes and Continuities
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                                        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 departure for rethinking contemporary design attitudes. The so-called shadow canon epitomises an alternative set of design sensibilities and attitudes toward typology, tectonics and composition and advocates the presence of tradition as a means of rearticulating the modern. This double edition of Oase will have great relevance for a contemporary national and international discourse and practice characterised by a relentless search for more nuanced approaches to the built environment.
                                    • 2014

                                        1. Date string
                                          16/01/2014
                                          Title
                                          {"en"=>"OASE 91 on the web", "nl"=>"Reacties op OASE 91"}
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                                          OASE 91 is being positively reviewed by James Taylor-Foster on ArchdailyArchidose (A Daily Dose of Architecture) reviews OASE 91 in it’s blog. The latest issue is also being referred to by drs. ir. Jan den Boer on Cobouw (dutch only). Archined dedicates an article on ‘Building Atmospheres’ and on the site of ‘de Architect’ OASE 91 is named one of Sander Woertmans favorite architectural books of 2013! (Both Dutch only.)
                                      • 2013

                                        • Date string
                                          17/12/2013
                                          Title
                                          {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 91. Building Atmosphere", "nl"=>"Nu beschikbaar: OASE 91. Sfeer bouwen"}
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                                          Atmosphere is an essential concept for Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.  In his text Atmospheres (1996), Zumthor identified a series of themes that play a role in his work in achieving architectonic atmosphere. OASE exchanges ideas with Zumthor about the current relevance of this text, and about the practice of bringing together these elements in the design and construction process. Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa relates atmosphere in architecture to examples and theories from other disciplines like psychology and the visual arts. Zumthor and Pallasmaa also introduce the work of contemporary architects who in their view succeed in truly creating atmosphere through construction.

                                          Peter Zumthor is winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Zumthor has taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles (1988), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1999) among others. 

                                          Juhani Pallasmaa is Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Misouri as well as the current Plym Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. Pallasmaa’s book The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses has become a classic of architectural theory and is required reading on courses in many schools of architecture around the world.
                                      • 2013

                                        • Date string
                                          17/12/2013
                                          Title
                                          {"en"=>"Leeuwendalersweg 623–667, 3 Scenes", "nl"=>"Leeuwendalersweg 623–667, 3 Scenes"}
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                                          OASE asked filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen to react on the collective space in a social housing block in the Kolenkitarea in Amsterdam by korth tielens architecten. Their contribution to issue #91 consists of a montage of 27 videostills and an online presentation.

                                          The recordings are made in the stairways and entrance hall of the appartment-building, Leeuwendalersweg 623–667 in the Kolenkitarea in Amsterdam West.

                                          Read more …
                                      • 2013

                                          1. Date string
                                            02/08/2013
                                            Title
                                            {"en"=>"OASE at CCA, Montreal"}
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                                            A discussion on architectural magazines and publishing with Pierre Chabard, co-founder of the biannual French magazine Criticat, and Véronique Patteeuw, editor of OASE.

                                            Chabard will discuss Criticat’s production process as well as its editorial line-up and approach to architectural criticism. Patteeuw will present OASE within the field of architectural publishing and its latest issue addressing the question “what is good architecture?”.

                                            Event information: 
                                            8 August 2013, 6:00 pm 
                                            CCA Bookstore
                                            Free Admission

                                            more information

                                        • 2013

                                            1. Date string
                                              19/06/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"OASE 90 in Abitare 533"}
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                                              “Abitare” and the editors (Christophe Van Gerrewey, Véronique Patteeuw and Hans Teerds) of OASE 90 come together to examine and discuss possible answers to this question, considering the various points of view and stances taken in response to the simple, yet complex question: “What is Good Architecture?”
                                          • 2013

                                            • Date string
                                              27/06/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Presentation OASE 90. What is good architecture?"}
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                                              The recently published issue n°90 of the architectural journal OASE is entitled “What is good architecture?”. Bob Van Reeth and the curators of the Bob Van Reeth exhibition, Bart Verschaffel and Christophe Van Gerrewey contributed amongst others to this issue. On June 27, during the nocturne at BOZAR, the issue will be presented by OASE editor Véronique Patteeuw. Afterwards Bob Van Reeth will talk about his view on architectural quality, a view that will be challenged by other definitions of good architecture.

                                              Date:
                                              27th of June 2013, 7:30 pm

                                              Place: 
                                              at the entrance of the exhibition  Bob Van Reeth: Architect

                                              Entrance: 
                                              free — reservation via www.bozar.be

                                              Language:
                                              Dutch

                                              Coproduction:
                                              Bozar Architecture, A+Belgian Architectural Review

                                          • 2013

                                            • Date string
                                              29/05/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 90. What Is Good Architecture?"}
                                              Educated text tagged
                                              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 recognised as such – of the impossibility of knowing (or daring to know) what good architecture is. The assumption, critical in itself (and certainly useful), that each architecture project has to be judged anew each time has led everyone to unquestioningly assume that there is no values model for architecture. It has also ensured that the last models for evaluating architecture (modernism and postmodernism) are been followed merely by perversions (supermodernism, retromodernism, etcetera) or by ideals made into science (sustainability, mathematical models and regionalism).

                                              Nevertheless, it is impossible to work with architecture – in design, theory or history – without making assumptions about criteria for quality. Just because a unique values model no longer exists does not mean that different values models cannot exist side by side. This issue of OASE uncovers and makes explicit the assumptions underlying these models, by posing the simple question ‘What is good architecture?’ in different ways and have it answered by people whose ‘main occupation’ is architecture. 

                                              Of course the question of good architecture cannot be answered unequivocally and definitively. But simply because a question is certain to have an infinite number of answers does not mean it should not be asked. This issue of OASE can be like a banquet at which each guest selects something entirely different from the menu in a well-reasoned and forthright way – and so keeps the architecture party going.

                                          • 2013

                                            • Date string
                                              25/04/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Presentation: OASE 89. Medium", "nl"=>"Presentatie: OASE 89. Medium"}
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                                              OASE 89 wil be presented on April 25 in the Stadsmuseum Gent (STAM).

                                              Klaske Havik will present the issue.
                                              Lada Hrsak will reveal the project ‘Scramble City’.
                                              Michiel Dehaene will discuss the Mid-Size City in a conversation with Bart Verschaffel and Rudi Laermans.

                                              stamgent.be

                                          • 2013

                                            • Date string
                                              01/04/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Karel Martens in Paris", "nl"=>"Karel Martens in Parijs"}
                                              Educated text tagged

                                              Le graphiste néerlandais Karel Martens occupe une place essentielle dans le paysage du graphisme, de l’art et du design d’aujourd’hui. L’un des praticiens les plus importants de sa discipline, Martens a développé depuis 1961 un travail à la fois appliqué et autonome, personnel et expérimental.

                                              Ses contributions au graphisme incluent des timbres et des cartes téléphoniques, des revues et des livres, mais également de la signalétique et des interventions spécifiques dans des bâtiments. Sa pratique d’artiste, intimement liée à celle du graphiste, se développe autour d’une fascination pour la matérialité du papier, l’impression d’artefacts industriels et des constructions géométriques et “kinétiques”.

                                              Parmi ses nombreuses distinctions: le prix H.N. Werkman (1993) pour la conception graphique de la revue OASE, le prix Dr A.H. Heineken de l’art (1996), la médaille d’or à la Foire du livre de Leipzig (1998) et la Gerrit Noordzijprijs (2012). Martens enseigne à la Yale School of Art, et a co-fondé l’école Werkplaats Typografie en 1997.

                                              Karel Martens s’entretient avec Véronique Patteeuw, architecte de formation, enseignante à l’ENSAP Lille et éditrice de la revue OASE.

                                          • 2013

                                            • Date string
                                              12/02/2013
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 89. Medium. Images of the Mid-Size City", "nl"=>"Nu beschikbaar: OASE 89. Medium. Beelden van de middelgrote stad"}
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                                              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 on phenomena such as the generic city. OASE 89, on the other hand, also devotes attention to the typically European condition characterized by its vast number of small and mid-size cities. In contrast with the (Asian) generic city, typified by its massive scale and loss of (historical) identity and public domain, there is the European mid-size city: a city with historical and geographical identity. This makes the model of this European generic city a resilient model, one with staying power in light of today’s urban challenges.

                                          • 2012

                                            • Date string
                                              01/11/2012
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 88. Exhibitions. Showing and Producing Architecture", "nl"=>"Nu verkrijgbaar: OASE 88. Tentoonstellingen. Architectuur tonen en produceren"}
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                                              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 exhibition as a medium for experimentation, providing an alternative to the built project as a bearer of the practice of architecture.

                                              Throughout modernity, exhibitions have played an essential part in the formation and differentiation of the culture of architecture. Apart from their historiographical role, they have been a means to identify commonalities in the present, stage discourse and instigate new forms of practice. But exhibitions are also built spatial manifestations in themselves and spaces in which unrealized proposals can be made public. As such, they offer various occasions for the elaboration of experimental design practices.

                                          • 2012

                                            • Date string
                                              23/08/2012
                                              Title
                                              {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 87. Alan Colquhoun", "nl"=>"Nu verkrijgbaar: OASE 87. Alan Colquhoun"}
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                                              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 themes that Colquhoun has addressed in his work, but also the various positions that he has taken in his career: scholar, critic and practitioner.

                                              Alan Colquhoun (b. 1921) has managed for decades to link his practical experiences with a particular way of thinking about architecture history and theory. Colquhoun has been making his mark since the 1950s, with constructive contributions to the discourse and the theorization of architecture. He has written important books like The Oxford History of Modern Architecture, and published essays in Architectural Criticism and Modernity and the Classical Tradition. Colquhoun’s work illustrates that architecture – even today – needs its own theory and cultural position.

                                          • 2012

                                              1. Date string
                                                06/07/2012
                                                Title
                                                {"en"=>"Public lecture by Owen Hatherley", "nl"=>"Publieke lezing door Owen Hatherley"}
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                                                Owen Hatherley is speaking within the programme of the Werkplaats Typographie End of the Year Show on Friday 6 July, in De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

                                                Hatherley is a writer who lives in London. He writes on architecture, urbanism and popular culture and is one of the contributors to OASE’s upcoming issue OASE 87 ‘Alan Colquhoun’.

                                                Public lecture:
                                                Friday 6 July 17:00-18:00
                                                followed by exhibition opening with drinks, 18:00-21:00

                                                Location:
                                                De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, 1073 AT Amsterdam

                                                 

                                            • 2012

                                              • Date string
                                                08/06/2012
                                                Title
                                                {"en"=>"Forthcoming: OASE 87. Alan Colquhoun", "nl"=>"Binnnenkort: OASE 87. Alan Colquhoun"}
                                                Educated text tagged

                                                OASE 87 is dedicated to the thinking and the position of British architect Alan Colquhoun (1921), situated within today’s debate on architecture criticism. Colquhoun has been making his mark since the 1950s, with constructive contributions to the discourse and the theorization of architecture.

                                                Editors: Tom Avermaete, Christoph GrafeHans Teerds

                                                Contents

                                                Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds
                                                Composition and Typology Alan Colquhoun’s Building Projects

                                                Kenneth Frampton
                                                ‘Not Individual Property’: The Ideas of Alan Colquhoun

                                                Stanislas von Moos
                                                Re-Reading A.C. on L.C.

                                                Angelika Schnell
                                                What Is Meant by ‘History’?

                                                Françoise Fromonot
                                                Ristretti: Alan Colquhoun’s 90th

                                                Owen Hatherley
                                                Two Notes on Alan Colquhoun

                                                Christian Kieckens
                                                Modernical

                                                Michiel Riedijk
                                                The River and the Ferry / A Brief Reflection on Alan Colquhoun’s ‘Typology and Design Method’

                                                Paul Vermeulen
                                                After the Avant-Garde

                                                Tom Avermaete and Christoph Grafe
                                                A Conversation with Alan Colquhoun

                                            • 2012

                                                1. Date string
                                                  30/05/2012
                                                  Title
                                                  {"en"=>"Now available: abstracts of OASE articles", "nl"=>"Nu beschikbaar: abstracts van OASE artikelen"}
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                                                  In order to enhance OASE’s academic profile, the journal publishes from issue #81 onwards abstracts for all its articles. These abstracts permit an accurate insight into the contents of each contribution and allow scholars to explore OASE for research material. The contents of all abstracts is searchable through the website’s search engine.

                                              • 2012

                                                • Date string
                                                  12/04/2012
                                                  Title
                                                  {"en"=>"OASE 86 on Archined", "nl"=>"OASE 86 op Archined"}
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                                                  The 86ste edition of the journal for architecture OASE is completely dedicated to baroque. On the relation between a small Czech pilgrimage church, the Berlin Philharmonic and a National parc Centre in the Swiss Zernez.

                                                  Read more at Archined

                                              • 2012

                                                  1. Date string
                                                    06/03/2012
                                                    Title
                                                    {"en"=>"New OASE editor", "nl"=>"Nieuw OASE redactielid"}
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                                                    Christophe Van Gerrewey is scientific researcher (FWO) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University. He is preparing a PhD on post-war architecture criticism. He is the editor of Rooted in the Real. Writings on Architecture by Geert Bekaert (2011) and publishes on architecture and the arts. In 2012 appeared his first novel Op de hoogte, De Bezige Bij Antwerpen.  

                                                • 2012

                                                    1. Date string
                                                      02/01/2012
                                                      Title
                                                      {"en"=>"OASE newsletter", "nl"=>"OASE nieuwsbrief"}
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                                                      Sign up for the OASE newsletter to stay informed on new issues of OASE and other activities.

                                                  • 2011

                                                    • Date string
                                                      30/12/2011
                                                      Title
                                                      {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 86. Baroque", "nl"=>"Nieuw: OASE 86. Barok"}
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                                                      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 studies, this issue examines how the complex geometric compositions, surface treatments and semantic operations of the baroque might be connected to contemporary design practice. To that end, the authors turn their attention to relatively underexposed practices, such as the Bohemian baroque of Santini Aichel and the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, and examine the reception of the baroque by modern architects such as Hans Scharoun and Luigi Moretti. The way in which the baroque figures as a fertile medium for recent architectural practice in Europe is investigated in interviews with Hermann Czech and Christ & Gantenbein, and assessed in studies of the work of Robbrecht & Daem and Valerio Olgiati.

                                                      Editors of this issue: David de Bruijn, Maarten Delbeke, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte

                                                      With contributions by: Andrew Leach, Dirk De Meyer, Christian Kieckens, Luigi Moretti, Hans Scharoun, Martijn van Beek, Irina Davidovici

                                                  • 2011

                                                      1. Date string
                                                        28/12/2011
                                                        Title
                                                        {"en"=>"Call for Papers: OASE 89. Medium. Images of the Mid-Size City", "nl"=>"Call for Papers: OASE 89. Medium. Beelden van de middelgrote stad"}
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                                                        Europe is a continent of small and medium sized cities. This could be a geographical statement, but is perhaps a more pertinent observation on the dominant collective imagination regarding the city. If the metropolis is the place of the modern urban experience, then the small and medium sized city is the context in which modernity is being absorbed and gains its familiar and honorable face. It is the natural habitat of a reformist type of urbanism and architecture that embrace modernity without choosing for the uncompromising idiom of modernism but chooses to package the new within a project that chooses for identity and legibility.

                                                        Once the center of its own territory, the mid-size-city is more than ever the part and parcel of a horizontal network within which the opportunities and problems of the contemporary urban condition manifest themselves. The big assignments, demography, migration, mobility, ecology, are just as well the challenges of the large, mid-sized or small cities. From this perspective, the mid-size city has become today again the place in which the images and imaginaries surrounding the European city are being tuned and readjusted . This is both manifest not only in the return of traditional images and urbanisms that take the small town as the reference point for a narrative on sustainable development (e.g. transition towns), but also in the rediscovery of the mediating role of the mid-size-city and its capacity to generate new imaginaries (e.g. the project ‘Mid-Size-Utopia’, Zandbelt&vandenBerg). The mid-size-city, it turns out, is well equipped to accommodate the changing roles and positions within the networked landscape of cities. We are being witness to the reinvention of a historical cities’ network, in which no longer the central position of the different cities with respect to their hinterland is leading, but rather their respective interaction and relative position within an open network.

                                                        For a new issue of the journal OASE dedicated to this theme we are in search of contributions on projects and design research specifically concerned with the Mid-Size-City as the place where the quite transformation of the European contingent takes on concrete spatial form and becomes the object of architectural and urbanistic intervention. Authors who approach the issue of the mid-size city from a perspective other than the project or design research are advised to respond to the Call For Papers of the Ghent Urban Studies Team for the colloquium ‘Mid-Size City. The dual nature of urban imagery in Europe during the long 20th century’ (Ghent, 19-21 April 2012). Authors can respond to both Call for Papers as well.

                                                        Abstracts of max. 500 words are due before 31 January 2011, e-mail to bruno.notteboom@ugent.be

                                                        OASE 89 will be released in the Fall of 2012; selected authors will be expected to deliver their full papers by the end of March 2012.

                                                    • 2011

                                                        1. Date string
                                                          20/11/2011
                                                          Title
                                                          {"en"=>"Call for Papers: OASE 88. The Exhibition as a Site of Production", "nl"=>"Call for Papers: OASE 88. The Exhibition as a Site of Production"}
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                                                          What possible relations can the exhibition assume in relation to architectural practice? How does its dual character, appearing both as a spatial situation in its own right and as a vehicle for making unrealised proposals known to a public, provide an opportunity to produce new discourses, experimentally stage architectural practice, or reconsider disciplinary limits? 

                                                          OASE 88 examines the role of the architectural exhibition as site of production, rather than a strictly representative device. Bridging theory and practice, and relating historical examples to contemporary concerns, it considers the exhibition as a medium for architectural experimentation, providing an alternative to the built project as a bearer of architectural practice.

                                                          OASE invites architects, historians and theorists to contribute to the upcoming issue. We specifically welcome case studies of historical exhibitions related to the above-mentioned questions.

                                                          Abstracts of max. 500 words are due before 15 December 2011, e-mail to vpatteeuw@gmail.com and t.g.e.vandeputte@gmail.com

                                                          OASE 88 will be released in the course of 2012; selected authors will be expected to deliver their full papers by spring 2012.

                                                      • 2011

                                                        • Date string
                                                          11/11/2011
                                                          Title
                                                          {"en"=>"Documentary on OASE designer Karel Martens", "nl"=>"Documentaire over OASE ontwerper Karel Martens"}
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                                                          The work of Karel Martens has taken an important place in the European art and design landscape. During his 50-year-long career, Martens has designed books and magazines, facades, signs and stamps. Since 1990, he is the designer of all OASE issues.

                                                          Martens will be featured in television programme ‘De Canvasconnectie’, 13 november 2011, on CANVAS (BE) at 20.15.

                                                          Trailer

                                                      • 2011

                                                          1. Date string
                                                            10/11/2011
                                                            Title
                                                            {"en"=>"Symposium 'Models: On Imagination and Reality'", "nl"=>"Symposium 'Maquettes: Over de verbeelding en de realiteit'"}
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                                                            Following the publication of OASE 84 ‘Models’, editor Anne Holtrop organises in collaboration with KAdE a symposium on models on 17 November 2011 in the Kunsthal in Amersfoort.

                                                            The evening programme:

                                                            19:00 Doors open and possibility to visit the exhibition MärklinWorld.
                                                            19:30 Start of the symposium.

                                                            Introduction by Anne Holtrop (moderator for the evening). Speakers: Christophe Van Gerrewey (on the model as autonomous architectural work) and Krijn de Koning (on imagination).

                                                            The symposium will be held in Dutch and will end at 22:00.

                                                            See the website of Kunsthal KAdE for more information.

                                                        • 2011

                                                          • Date string
                                                            03/11/2011
                                                            Title
                                                            {"en"=>"Panel discussion 'Constructing Criticism'", "nl"=>"Paneldiscussie 'Constructing Criticism'"}
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                                                            On Saturday 5 November, OASE editors Veronique Patteeuw and Tom Vandeputte will chair a discussion at the Architectural Association, London on new modes of criticism in recent publishing practices. Participants in the discussion will include Tina di Carlo (Log), Matteo Ghidoni (San Rocco), Benedikt Boucsein (Camenzind), Ian Pollard (matzine), Tiago Casanova (scopio) en Sebastian Craig (Touching on Architecture).

                                                            The event takes place between 4pm and 5pm in the New Soft Room, Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES.

                                                            More information

                                                        • 2011

                                                          • Date string
                                                            30/10/2011
                                                            Title
                                                            {"en"=>"OASE at the Architectural Association, London", "nl"=>"OASE op de Architectural Association, Londen"}
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                                                            OASE will take part in the exhibition ARCHIZINES at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. ARCHIZINES celebrates the recent resurgence of alternative architectural publishing with 60 new fanzines, magazines and journals from around the world. The exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone, is open to the public from 5 November to 14 December 2011. The private view takes place on Friday 4 November, followed by two chaired discussions in the Architectural Association on Saturday 5 November.

                                                            AA Website

                                                        • 2011

                                                          • Date string
                                                            09/10/2011
                                                            Title
                                                            {"en"=>"Now available: OASE 85. Productive Uncertainty", "nl"=>"Nieuw: OASE 85. Productieve onzekerheid"}
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                                                            Indeterminacy in spatial design, planning and management.

                                                            Recent times have demonstrated how swiftly the social, political, cultural and economic circumstances can change. The disciplines of landscape design, urban planning and architecture find themselves facing the consequences. OASE 85 investigates how the indeterminacy and instability of contemporary programmes, contexts and ambitions can be regarded as a potentially productive factor in spatial design and day-to-day management.

                                                            Editors of this issue: Klaske Havik, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds

                                                            With contributions by: Michiel Dehaene, Els Vervloessem, John Habraken, Thierry Lagrange, Yeoryia Manoulopoulou, Dimitri Messu (Exyzt), Erik Rietveld, Ronald Rietveld, Iris Schutten, Hannes Schwertfeger (Baubotanik), Tom Vandeputte

                                                        • 2011

                                                          • Date string
                                                            28/09/2011
                                                            Title
                                                            {"en"=>"OASE 81 Wins CICA Pierre Vago Journalism Award", "nl"=>"OASE 81 wint CICA Pierre Vago Journalism Award"}
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                                                            The International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) has announced that the CICA Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2011 is awarded to OASE 81 ‘Constructing Criticism’.

                                                            The complete list of winners was announced at the CICA Symposium held within the UIA World Congress Tokyo 2011 on September 28th in the Tokyo International Forum. The international jury consisted of: Joseph Rykwert (USA/UK), Manuel Cuadra (Germany), Sengül Gür (Turkey), Louise Noelle (Mexico) and Jennifer Taylor (Australia).

                                                            List of winners (PDF)

                                                        • 2011

                                                            1. Date string
                                                              14/07/2011
                                                              Title
                                                              {"en"=>"OASE Reader’s Survey", "nl"=>"OASE Lezersenquête"}
                                                              Educated text tagged

                                                              OASE’s editor and publisher are very interested in the opinion and appreciation of it’s readers. That’s why we invite all our readers to participate in OASE’s Readers survey.

                                                          • 2011

                                                            • Date string
                                                              06/07/2011
                                                              Title
                                                              {"en"=>"Recently published: OASE 84", "nl"=>"Recent verschenen: OASE 84"}
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                                                              In OASE 84 the architectural model takes centre stage. Models are such a self-evident aspect of the architectural métier that barely any thought has been given to the specific contribution that these physical models make to the discipline. In an era when computer visualizations dominate architectural (re) presentation, the demise of the model seems to be looming on the horizon. While in architecture the role of the model remains underexposed and is even being called into question, in the visual arts the spatial capability of the model is currently being discovered. The models made by artists are revealing the power and quality of architectural models anew, and these special attributes are the subject of investigation in OASE 84.

                                                              Launch of OASE issue 84 on Wednesday July 6th, 2011 at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

                                                          • 2011

                                                            • Date string
                                                              06/07/2011
                                                              Title
                                                              {"en"=>"Presentation OASE 84", "nl"=>"Presentatie OASE 84"}
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                                                              Launch of issue OASE 84 on Wednesday July 6th, 2011 at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag with a lecture by Stefaan Vervoort on models in the artistic domain and by Christophe Van Gerrewey on models in the architectural realm.

                                                          • 2011

                                                            • Date string
                                                              01/06/2011
                                                              Title
                                                              {"en"=>"Exhibition on OASE’s Graphic Designer Karel Martens", "nl"=>"Tentoonstelling over OASE’s vormgever Karel Martens"}
                                                              Educated text tagged

                                                              This exhibition, held in Gallery The Narrows in Melbourne, focuses on Martens’ contribution to the graphic style of OASE. From 1990 (Issue 28) Martens took over the art direction of the journal, often working with students from the Werkplaats Typografie, an experimental typography school he founded in 1998 with Wigger Bierma. What began as a student magazine, evolved into an international professional journal in which a reflective and critical approach to architecture, urban design and landscape architecture is the mainstay. Recently celebrating its 75th issue, the success of OASE is, in part, due to Martens’ refined graphic statement, often absorbing his experiments in print and typography, while upholding the dialogue between graphic design and architecture. The exhibition features all 56 issues of OASE designed by Martens along with printed matter from his experimental studio practice. 

                                                          1. 21/11/2023
                                                            call for conversations OASE 118

                                                            Rationalism Revisited

                                                            This Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.

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                                                          2. 11/11/2023
                                                            call for abstracts OASE 119
                                                            1. 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.

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                                                          3. 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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                                                          4. 21/02/2023
                                                            Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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                                                          5. 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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                                                          6. 02/12/2022
                                                            Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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                                                          7. 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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                                                          8. 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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                                                          9. 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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                                                          10. 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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