Mission Statement

OASE is an independent, international, peer-reviewed journal for architecture that brings together academic discourse and the sensibilities of design practice. OASE advocates critical reflection in which the architectural project occupies a central position, yet is understood to be embedded in a wider cultural field. Intersections and affinities with other disciplines are explored in order to gain a more profound understanding of the practice and theory of architecture and rearticulate its disciplinary limits. Published three times a year, each OASE provides a rigorous investigation of a specific theme, featuring architecture, urban design and landscape design and insisting on the discussion of the historical and theoretical aspects of contemporary issues.

OASE ambassadors

Wim van den Bergh
architect, writer and full professor of Housing and Design at RWTH, Aachen
www.wimvandenbergh.nl

Kees Christiaanse
architect and partner at KCAP Architects & Planners
www.kcap.eu

Jean-Louis Cohen
architect, historian and professor at the Institute of Fine Art, New York University
www.nyu.edu

Yttje Feddes
landscape architect and director of Feddes/Olthof Landschapsarchitecten
www.feddes-olthof.nl

Kenneth Frampton
architect, critic, historian and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University New York
www.arch.columbia.edu

Herman Herzberger
architect and partner at Architectuurstudio HH
www.ahh.nl

Frits Palmboom
urban designer and partner at PALMBOUT-Urban Landscapes
www.palmbout.nl

Rotor
designbureau
www.rotordb.org

Nanne de Ru
architect and partner at Powerhouse Company
www.powerhouse-company.com

Dirk Sijmons
landscape architect, director of H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten and professor of Landscape Architecture at the Delft University of Technology
www.hnsland.nl 

Sponsors

Bovenbouw Architectuur, Antwerpen
DaF architecten, Rotterdam
Diederendirrix architecten, Eindhoven
Enno Zuidema Stedebouw, Rotterdam
Geurst & Schulze architecten, Den Haag
H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten, Utrecht
KCAP Architects&Planners, Rotterdam
Mecanoo architecten, Delft
MVRDV, Rotterdam
Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Rotterdam
PALMBOUT- Urban Landscapes bv, Rotterdam
Powerhouse Company, Rotterdam
Rijnboutt, Amsterdam 

Publication Ethics

OASE defends high standards of expected ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the editors, the peer reviewers, the publishers and the community of academic architecture journals. We follow as such ‘the guide for ethical editing’ as made available by the Committee of Publication Ethics. OASE takes it as its duty to guarantee ethical behaviour in all issues. The academic editor and academic committee play a key role preserving the quality.

The peer-reviewed articles published in OASE support and embody a scientific method. Their publication reflects the quality of the work of their authors and their supporting institutions, most often faculties of architecture of leading universities. When publishing their articles in the peer-reviewed journal, OASE contributes to the essential development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge in the field of architecture. Over the thirty years of its existence, the journal has played an instrumental role in promoting and improving academic publishing in the architectural field, inviting young scholars to write and publish articles while training them in ethical behaviour.

Facing the increasing practices of plagiarism, OASE believes that monitoring publishing ethics is a major aspect of our editorial process. The editorial board and the academic editor are in their day-to-day practice committed to maintaining the high quality of the journal and critically observe all contributions from this perspective.

In order to enhance its academic approach towards publishing, OASE has elaborated significant tools: the extensive author’s guidelines, the official templates of invitation and rejection, the templates for calls for papers and for peer-reviewing. We share these tools with colleague editors in order to improve ethical publishing and responsible editorial behaviour in the international field of architectural publishing.

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Editorial Board
Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Job Floris, Christophe van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Ruben Molendijk, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte

Managing editor
D’Laine Camp

Academic Editor
Véronique Patteeuw

Academic Board
Umberto Barbieri, Christine Boyer, Maristella Casciato, Bernard Colenbrander, Adrian Forty, Philip Goad, André Loeckx, Michael Müller, Bart Verschaffel

Board OASE Foundation
Simon Franke, Henk Hanekamp, Klaske Havik, Dirk De Meyer, Jaap van Rijs, Max Risselada Marcel Smets, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Enno Zuidema

Associated Universities
Technische Universiteit Delft, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Gent

Editorial office
OASE
p/a D’Laine Camp
Prins Frederik Hendrikstraat 107
3051 ER Rotterdam
the Netherlands

OASE is an edition of the OASE Foundation
KvK 41145957
Bank ING 151589
VAT number OASE Foundation 009507.577.B.01

Publisher
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam

Graphic design
Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem

Website design and programming
Tomas Celizna in collaboration with Karel Martens and Hyo Kwon

With thanks to
Jakub Straka, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Véronique Patteeuw, Anne Holtrop and NAi Publishers

The site was made possible thanks to financial contribution of the Netherlands Architecture Fund.

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