1. John Habraken

        Bio
        John Habraken (b. 1928) published the book De dragers en de mensen in 1961, in which he presented a radical alternative to the construction of mass housing in the Netherlands (the book was published in English as Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing in 1972). Habraken subsequently got involved in the Foundation for Architects’ Research (SAR), becoming its director in 1964. The ideas of the foundation, which focused on alter- native housing design, attracted national and international interest. From 1975 to 1981 Habraken was head of the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, remaining with MIT until his retirement in 1989. Habraken is the author of numerous books, research reports and articles. His theoretical research has earned him international fame. Habraken has received various accolades throughout his life, including the David Roëll Prize in 1979, de Oeuvre Prize of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB) in 1996 and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) Kubus in 2003. That same year, Habraken was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
        [last updated in 2011]

      2. issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

           
      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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