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OASE Journal for Architecture

OASE is an independent, international, peer-reviewed journal for architecture.

03/11/2024

Call for Abstracts OASE 122
Ecological Pedagogies
Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner

While society continues to struggle with prioritising ecology over economic and political interests, architecture schools are in a different situation. There, ecological principles are at the forefront of many projects, and lecturers, researchers and
students are increasingly called upon to improve their knowledge of the relationship between architecture and ecology.

This issue of OASE aims to capture these developments and contribute to the growing body of knowledge in this area.

Everyone, including students and lecturers, is welcome to contribute to this Call for Abstracts.

Proposals must be submitted no later than 1 December 2024 via [email protected].

Proposals can be submitted in Dutch or English.

Read the whole text of this Call on www.oasejournal.nl.

12/10/2024

Out now: OASE 118. Book Reviews: From Words to Buildings. Edited by Christophe Van Gerrewey, Hans Teerds. Designed by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens. Available in print for € 22,95, or as e-book for € 14,95.

In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through 25 case studies from the eighteenth century until today. 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.

The main aim is to reveal how the book relates to the architecture 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.

17/09/2024

OASE 117. Project Village:

“Village Chatter is an attempt at dialogue on the fine line between providing enough vocabulary to start talking about quality, while allowing for an open-ended system that can evolve and incorporate the changing needs and values of those who share the village space as a place of architectural practice or as a living environment. Derived from several strong reference projects built in villages throughout Flanders over the last decade, and from numerous discussions on current building permits, Village Chatter is offering a potential way to evolve from best practice to common practice.”

Quote taken from the article: "Village Chatter in Flanders. The Articulation of a Pattern Language for Contemporary Village Transformations" by Ward Verbakel.

Image: Oplinter, 2020: loose-knit urban fabric in the Gete River valley

31/07/2024

OASE 117. Project Village:

"In their texts, each architect detailed the failure of using geography and the natural environment as a causal explanation for architectural morphology. However, regionalism as an epistemic framework was not fully abandoned. Rather, each sought to relocate regionalism within the realm of human action. To this effect it is notable that in the collages there is the (limited) presence of the body. Instead of the environment and general laws, the architects began to prioritize anthropos (human-kind) as the driver of form.”

Quote taken from the article "Elemental Villages. Architectural Ethnography and the Decline of Geographic Regionalism in France" by Gregory E. Cartelli.

Image: Collage of photo and illustrations nominally depicting typological architectures of subregions in Lower Normandy. From: Techniques et Architecture 11/12 (1943)

27/06/2024

OASE 117. Project Village:

"Like Ruskin, these architects believed that the true character of a nation could not be found in the cities, but in the villages. This idealisation of the countryside was a key tenet of the Swiss nation-building project since the eighteenth century. (...) But to which Swiss countryside should the Swiss return? The vine-covered shores of Lake Geneva? the rolling hills of Appenzell? the alpine towns of Ticino? Or the highlands of Bern and Valais?”

Quote taken from the article "It Takes a Village to Make a Nation. The ‘Village Suisse’ at the Exposition Nationale de Gene ve (1896)" by Nikos Magouliotis“

Image: Paul Bouvier and Aloīs Brémond, plan of the Village Suisse published in the official catalogue.

14/06/2024

Out now: OASE 117. Project Village. Edited by Stefan Devoldere, Maarten Liefooghe and Sereh Mandias. Designed by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens. Available in print for € 22,95, or as e-book for € 14,95.

Is the village still relevant as a model in times of general urbanisation? The village has remained underexposed in the historiography of architecture and urbanism. This is also true of the contemporary architecture debate, which is still dominated by the avant-garde, urbanity, institutional types of building and the reuse of the city. Recently, however, more attention has been paid to the village, partly due to the demand for spatial densification, climate challenges and biodiversity. There is a need for a qualitative approach to village densification in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also a growing interest in preserving and restoring the identity of villages and landscapes.

OASE 117 contributes to the debate on the architecture and urbanism of villages, examining them not as the antithesis of modernity, but as its complex product. Eight essays analyse images, inventories, idealisations and transformations of villages within the changing political-social contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

23/04/2024

OASE 116. The Architect as Public Intellectual

Images: Cover of Catherine Bauer, Modern Housing, c. 1934 / Minnette De Silva climbing up to inspect concrete columns and slab work of the De Saram house, 1951 / View of the exhibition ‘Venezia Viva’, organised by Egle Renata Trincanato, Palazzo Grassi, 1954 / Khaleda Ekram in a jury session at BLUET, n.d.

16/04/2024

OASE 116. The Architect as Public Intellectual: ‘“Suddenly I understood why the economy and ecology can never be united in this monetary system,” she stated afterwards. Although Margit Kennedy tried to counteract the prevailing economic logic of profitability, she came to the conclusion that an architectural production along social-ecological guidelines could never be realised if the financial system remained unchanged.’ – Bettina Nagler, ‘A Layperson’s Approach to the Monetary System

Images: Early contribution (1989) for a conference on money and land in Switzerland / On television, Tietjen und Hirschhausen, 2011 / Design for the Permaculture Park in Dortmund

02/04/2024

OASE 116. The Architect as Public Intellectual: ‘Rivera Marin’s most compelling contribution to the INBA was fundamentally shaped by a series of publications entitled Cuadernos de Arquitectura. Here she consolidated her interests and provided a platform to promote and collect the work she was doing as a member of other organisations. (…) the booklets were distributed not only in conventional architectural circles and schools of architecture, but also – and this proved crucial – sent to embassies and consulates via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Education.’ – Elena Palacios Carral, ‘Building Diplomacy’

Images: Ruth Rivera Marin next to an Egyptian sculpture, n.d. / Ruth Rivera with the organising committee of the XIX Olympiad, 19 October 1968

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