Adrian Forty
- Bio
Adrian Forty is an Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. He is also the former Programme Director of the master’s programme in Architectural History. Forty’s main interest is in architecture’s role in societies and cultural contexts. His research includes work on the design of consumer goods; on language and architecture; and on architecture, collective memory, and forgetting. As of lately, he is concerned with the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of concrete as a construction material. In 2003, Forty was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education.
[last updated in 2021]
- 21/11/2023call for conversations OASE 118
- Rationalism RevisitedThis Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.
- 11/11/2023call for abstracts OASE 119
Review of Jean-Louis de Cordemoy's Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture in Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences & des beaux-arts, September 1706
Book Reviews
From Words to Buildings
In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.
- 06/03/2023BK Talks on 16 March 2023 about 'Design with Soil: Urbanizing the living surface'
- On 16 March 2023 the TU Delft will host a debate inspired by OASE 110.
- 31/01/2023Now available: OASE 113. Authorship
What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular authorship.
- 24/11/2022Call for Abstracts OASE 116
Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)
‘The Architect as Public Instellectual’
Deadline: 23-12-2022
- 15/10/2022Now available: OASE 112. Ecology & Aesthetics
Through a series of concrete projects, the contributions in this issue explore the field of tension between architectural aesthetics and issues of energy, technology and materiality. Ecological practices in architecture must not only be effective in providing solutions, but inevitably raise questions of beauty, affection and perception as well.
- 23/05/2022Call for Abstracts OASE #115. Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe
Call for Abstracts OASE #115 about “Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe”, written by Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe and Bernard Colenbrander. Deadline is June 19, 2022. Read the full text of the OASE #115 Call for Abstracts in the PDF.
- 20/05/2022Now available: OASE 111. Staging the Museum
Museums stage public encounters between visitors, objects and stories. This is not limited to a tour through the exhibition spaces, it starts already with monumental or ‘tresholdless’ entrances.
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